Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'm not in charge of my life.
I like blogs. they're good times.
Found, I told myself. Try to get found.
My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
I have the best divorce of anyone I've heard of.
I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.
I'd love to spend a day being supermodel beautiful.
I don't think any writer chooses what his or her work is called.
I think I'm much more comfortable talking about other books than my own!
Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.
I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.
You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.
There are a lot of women like me in the world, and we rarely get to see ourselves.
She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name.
I don't like futons. They can't commit. I'm a bed! I'm a couch! I'm a bed! I'm a couch!
I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.
If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?
Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.
I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.
There's nothing wrong with keeping your mouth shut if you don't have anything nice to say.
I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.
He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.
I want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear.
There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.
Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.
My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.
This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.
I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.
The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?
The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.
Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.
I was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much as I can.
I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.
I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.
People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,'
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.
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
I have these "pinch me" moments when I realize I got to be the thing I wanted to be growing up. I'm right where I belong.
Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.
I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for books I love.
I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.
Hefty? I'd railed to Peter, waving the clipping for emphasis. Hefty? For the record 'Hefty' is a trash bag. I'm festively plump.
I love it when people ask if Jennifer Weiner is a pen name. Um, if I wanted a pen name I could have done a LOT better than this!
I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the last great book I read.
My lazy, unfair assumption is that everything's easier when you're young and stunning. And maybe it is! But I'd like to see for myself.
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.
There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn’t.
I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.