145 Quotes by Meghan Daum

Becoming a parent is always going to be a default setting. I truly believe there will always be more people who want to have children than who don't.

It is important for children to grow up in a world where there are all kinds of adults and role models around them, for them to know it's not just parents and people who are parents that care about them, but that there are people who are living other kinds of lives.

It was a challenge for me to do a plot because I'd been an essayist and a journalist. I had to be vigilant about moving things along and being entertaining.

This whole notion that it's somehow easy and simpler to live in the country is such a fallacy.

I loved 'About Schmidt'. I like Alexander Payne's work a lot.

I work really hard not to have a kitsch tone to any of my work, particularly radio stuff, which sometimes goes in that direction on certain programs.

When there's so much choice, it can get overwhelming and it's hard to make a choice.

The first person is a tradition I relate to and that I use; historically, it's been the voice I work in. But the hair on the back of my neck stands up when I'm referred to as a 'confessional' writer.

For me, writing essays is very much about processing ideas and offering them up to the reader so that they are fully cooked.