Jennifer Weiner

“seventeen, tells her”

— Jennifer Weiner

“sing the prettiest songs,”

— Jennifer Weiner

“mom with a part-time (inching”

— Jennifer Weiner

I like blogs. they're good times.

— Jennifer Weiner

“Toronto Sydney New Delhi”

— Jennifer Weiner

I'm not in charge of my life.

— Jennifer Weiner

“First of all, it's life. You don't win.”

— Jennifer Weiner

“Sometimes I wish it has been you.”

— Jennifer Weiner

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

— Jennifer Weiner

“Your friends will still be your friends, if they're good friends.”

— Jennifer Weiner

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

— Jennifer Weiner

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

— Jennifer Weiner

“really? How many times had I heard my husband”

— Jennifer Weiner

You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.

— Jennifer Weiner

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

— Jennifer Weiner

“Don’t upset your mother, my father would say.”

— Jennifer Weiner

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

— Jennifer Weiner

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

— Jennifer Weiner

“You don't get perfect-but I was going to grab this happiness and hold it as tightly as I could. I was going…

— Jennifer Weiner

I was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much…

— Jennifer Weiner

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…

— Jennifer Weiner

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than…

— Jennifer Weiner

I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at…

— Jennifer Weiner

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever…

— Jennifer Weiner

Writing let me escape... It let me escape the insistent tug of my family, and its ongoing misery. Sitting in front of…

— Jennifer Weiner

There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You…

— Jennifer Weiner

I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for…

— Jennifer Weiner

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience…

— Jennifer Weiner

And then he left, and came back, and our lives fell apart, like a well-loved book that you’d read and read again,…

— Jennifer Weiner

Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates…

— Jennifer Weiner

Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You…

— Jennifer Weiner

“Note to aspiring writers: This is actually not that many rejections in the grand scheme of things. I know published writers whose…

— Jennifer Weiner

They wouldn’t have believed me, and if they had they would have wanted me to explain. And I had no explanation, no…

— Jennifer Weiner

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to…

— Jennifer Weiner

As the days piled up into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, and fall slid into winter, I realized one of…

— Jennifer Weiner

“Rose leaned against the bathroom door. Here it was — her real life, the truth of who she was, barreling down on…

— Jennifer Weiner

This is so much harder than I ever thought it would be...because the thing is, even if you're just working part-time, your…

— Jennifer Weiner

“A lemon,” said Mrs. Lefkowitz, and nodded. “Huh?” “Think about fruit,” she continued. “When you squeeze an orange, what do you get?”…

— Jennifer Weiner

“She took no pleasure from the very things I loved, from her size, her amplitude, her luscious, zaftig heft. As many times as I…

— Jennifer Weiner

“When I took Psychology 101, the professor taught us about random reinforcement. Put three groups of rats in three separate cages, each…

— Jennifer Weiner