Jennifer Weiner Quotes

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Jennifer Weiner

Profession : Writer

Birth : March 28, 1970

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.

Jennifer Weiner

I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'

Jennifer Weiner

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

Jennifer Weiner

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

Jennifer Weiner

Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.

Jennifer Weiner

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'

Jennifer Weiner

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

Jennifer Weiner

I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.

Jennifer Weiner

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.'

Jennifer Weiner

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

Jennifer Weiner

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

Jennifer Weiner