Jennifer Weiner Quotes

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• I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.
• Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.
• I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.
• I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.
• I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.
• I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
• People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,'
• ... somehow I couldn't stop. I had turned into someone that I would have pitied in another life; someone who searched for signs, who analyzed…
• You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.
• 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 you can change,…
• Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.
• 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 literature with a…
• If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.
• If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make…
• 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 don't…
• Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
• I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.
• I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.
• I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening…
• I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.

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