Jennifer Weiner Quotes - Page 5

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• 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.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Mom, Jobs, Feminist

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• 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.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Careers, Anxiety

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• There's nothing wrong with keeping your mouth shut if you don't have anything nice to say.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Nice, Keeping Your Mouth Shut, Mouths

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• I don't think any writer chooses what his or her work is called.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Thinking

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• My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Character, Voice, Creating

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• The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, Ideas, Presumptuous

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• 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.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, May, Assumption

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• 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.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, Labels, Genius

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• 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.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Email, Starting Out

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• 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!

  Jennifer Weiner

  Names, People, Done

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• We dated in our early 20s, when we were working at the same newspaper. We broke up, got back together and broke up again. I wanted to get married and have kids, but he wasn't ready. So I married someone else, had my daughters and the marriage ended ... and there was Bill. He'd never gotten married and was finally, finally ready. We discovered that we were still each other's favorite people to talk to.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Daughter, Kids, People

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• I have the best divorce of anyone I've heard of.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Divorce, Heard

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• I struggle with the fact that men's popular fiction is talked about differently. Books like mine don't get as many reviews and probably won't win any prizes, but they entertain the pants off of hundreds of thousands of women.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Struggle, Book, Men

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Stephen King writes mass fiction but gets reviewed by the New York Times and writes for the New Yorker. Critics say to me, "Shut up and enjoy your money," and I think, OK, I'll shut up and enjoy my money, but why does Stephen King get to enjoy his money and get reviewed on the cover of the New York Times Sunday Book Review?

  Jennifer Weiner

  Kings, New York, Book

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• 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.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Thinking, People

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, Enjoy, Take Time

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• 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.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Growing Up, Realizing, Moments

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• I'd love to spend a day being supermodel beautiful.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Beautiful, Supermodel

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• 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.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Lazy, Assumption, Unfair

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• 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.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, People, Lasts

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• I think I'm much more comfortable talking about other books than my own!

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Thinking, Talking

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• I was 45 when I wrote most of this book [Hungry Heart ], at what felt like a halfway point in my life, and I thought, If I can't be honest now, when will it happen? It was so hard to step away from the [protection of] fiction, but I'm ready to talk start telling their truth.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Heart, Steps

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• 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.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, Important, Email

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