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Writing Quotes by Jennifer Weiner
- I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.
- I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.
- 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,'
- 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…
- People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I…
- Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's…
- I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things…
- I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows…
- The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability…
- If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way…
- If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?
- Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov