I think I'm much more comfortable talking about other books than my own! — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I was 45 when I wrote most of this book [Hungry Heart ], at what felt like a halfway point in my… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Back in the day, when I was starting out, I'd get five or 10 emails and I'd respond to every one. But… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Stephen King writes mass fiction but gets reviewed by the New York Times and writes for the New Yorker. Critics say to… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of books about thin, attractive people having thin, attractive people's problems. I'm better set up to… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book.… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“For women who do too much—which includes, dear publishers, pretty much all the women who have enough disposable income to buy your… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
There's a part of me with every book that thinks, What would it have meant for me tohave had this book when… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I think I'm much more comfortable talking about other books than my own! — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
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… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
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… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“How do you find happiness in a body like yours...like mine? How do you find courage to follow anything anywhere if you don't feel… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Maybe it stems from my newspaper-reporting days, but I took notes the whole time - getting the call, how I felt. As soon as… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
![“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.” quote by Jennifer Weiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f9d/jennifer-weiner-2358_being-honest_i-was-45-when-i-wrote-most-of-this-book_2086521.jpg)
![“Maybe it stems from my newspaper-reporting days, but I took notes the whole time - getting the call, how I felt. As soon as I put pen to paper, it became a story [Hunger Heart], not something happening to me but something I was recording.” quote by Jennifer Weiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/45f/jennifer-weiner-2358_felt_maybe-it-stems-from-my-newspaper-reporti_219469.jpg)