"I think it's a very old and deep-seated……" — Jennifer Weiner
"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 capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention."
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87 Quotes by Jennifer Weiner
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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.
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Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.
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I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.
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I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.
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I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.
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I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for…
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People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I…
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... somehow I couldn't stop. I had turned into someone that I would have pitied in another life; someone who…
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You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.
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Things happen, and you can't make them unhappen. You don't get do-overs, you can't roll back the clock, and the…
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Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.
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If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times'…
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