When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it tends to speak to the reviewer's anxieties rather than the book itself.
Do I want to spend my diminished working hours writing or answering email? Now I have somebody read through them. If someone has something really important to tell me I write back. Otherwise they get the auto reply.
The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.
There are a lot of women like me in the world, and we rarely get to see ourselves.
Back in the day, when I was starting out, I'd get five or 10 emails and I'd respond to every one. But after my third or fourth book it got too time-consuming.
If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.
My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.
If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my readers are happy with it.
There's nothing wrong with keeping your mouth shut if you don't have anything nice to say.
I don't think any writer chooses what his or her work is called.
I grew up with a feminist mom and the understanding that, as someone coming from a position of (relative) privilege, it was my job to speak up when things weren't fair.
I hope that's what I've taught my girls - to be fair, to recognize their own position and their own good fortune, to use their voices to make things better. Beyond that, I'd tell them just to be kind.
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 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 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 think I'm much more comfortable talking about other books than my own!
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 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 sense is that beautiful women are living in a different world than I am, and that it's a world with benefits but also drawbacks - like, you're on a ticking clock, because the day you stop being supermodel-beautiful is the day that everything the world has to offer you is no longer being offered.
I'd love to spend a day being supermodel beautiful.
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.
I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.
There's a part of me with every book that thinks, What would it have meant for me tohave had this book when I was a kid? I decided to create a book for girls like me. The Littlest Bigfoot is about bullying and body image and girls who don't fit in. It's like training wheels for my adult books - like Sex and the City, but with 12-year-olds.
I think there are a lot of books about thin, attractive people having thin, attractive people's problems. I'm better set up to tell a different story.
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.
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