Quotes by Jennifer Weiner

About Jennifer Weiner:

Jennifer Weiner is an American writer, television producer, and former journalist. She is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Rose leaned against the bathroom door. Here it was — her real life, the truth of who she was, barreling down on her like a bus with bad brakes. Here was the truth — she wasn’t the kind of person Jim could fall in love with. She wasn’t what sh...

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The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.

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mooo," she said... "I mean mmmm," she moaned. Louder this time. Goddamn Dr. Seuss is ruining my sex life.

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Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

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People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

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If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?

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Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out o...

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Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.

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Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

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If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

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I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's somethin...

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I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.

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I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.

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I'm not in charge of my life.

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I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.

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Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private.

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I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.

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I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

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Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.

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There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.

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Author Bio

  • NameJennifer Weiner
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornMarch 28, 1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Novelist; Journalist