Jennifer Weiner

Found, I told myself. Try to get found.

— Jennifer Weiner

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

— Jennifer Weiner

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

— Jennifer Weiner

“conversation with Dave, telling him what had happened.”

— Jennifer Weiner

I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.

— Jennifer Weiner

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

— Jennifer Weiner

She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name...

— Jennifer Weiner

“face and figure from my dad’s mother, Grandma Sadie, who was tall,”

— Jennifer Weiner

There are a lot of women like me in the world, and we rarely get to see ourselves.

— Jennifer Weiner

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!

— Jennifer Weiner

“mooo," she said... "I mean mmmm," she moaned. Louder this time. Goddamn Dr. Seuss is ruining my sex life.”

— Jennifer Weiner

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

— Jennifer Weiner

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

— Jennifer Weiner

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick…

— Jennifer Weiner

As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I…

— Jennifer Weiner

People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the…

— Jennifer Weiner

Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest.

— Jennifer Weiner

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

— Jennifer Weiner

My sense is that beautiful women are living in a different world than I am, and that it's a world with benefits…

— Jennifer Weiner

It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits,…

— Jennifer Weiner

Do I want to spend my diminished working hours writing or answering email? Now I have somebody read through them. If someone…

— Jennifer Weiner

I struggle with the fact that men's popular fiction is talked about differently. Books like mine don't get as many reviews and…

— Jennifer Weiner

If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly…

— Jennifer Weiner

Stephen King writes mass fiction but gets reviewed by the New York Times and writes for the New Yorker. Critics say to…

— Jennifer Weiner

It's like if a young woman writes it, then it's chick lit. We don't care if she's slaying vampires or working as…

— Jennifer Weiner

Things happen, and you can't make them unhappen. You don't get do-overs, you can't roll back the clock, and the only thing…

— Jennifer Weiner

“Daisy had her preheat the oven, remove the chicken from its plastic, rinse it, and pat it dry. "Dry skin is crispy…

— Jennifer Weiner

“Women’s stories matter, the stories we write, the stories we read—the big-deal winners of literary prizes, and Harlequin romances, and documentaries, and…

— Jennifer Weiner

Addie, please." More tears dripped down her cheeks. "Don't be so hard." "Oh, please," I muttered...and that was as far as I…

— Jennifer Weiner

We dated in our early 20s, when we were working at the same newspaper. We broke up, got back together and broke…

— Jennifer Weiner

Okay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only…

— Jennifer Weiner

“I had started on the marriage and motherhood beat by accident with a post on my personal, read only by friends, blog…

— Jennifer Weiner

“I always wondered, though, what the fathers felt as they drove up the street they used to drive down every night, and…

— Jennifer Weiner

“I know that what had happened with my father - his insults, his criticism, the way he made me feel that I…

— Jennifer Weiner

“It was high school. Evil is kind of the name of the game.”

— Jennifer Weiner

“Inadequacy and impostor syndrome are painful. They’re also great motivators.”

— 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

The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard...Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick.…

— Jennifer Weiner

Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And…

— Jennifer Weiner

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice…

— Jennifer Weiner