Jennifer Weiner Quotes

• I went to Princeton, I minored in women’s studies.

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• I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

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• 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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• 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 and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, ‘Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?’

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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 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 to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.

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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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• 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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• Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private.

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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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• 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 room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.

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• Being a novelist is hard for anyone – male or female. You don’t get to quit your day job.

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Jennifer Weiner (33)

Birth:	28th March, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

Jennifer Weiner was born in DeRidder, Louisiana, USA. She is an American novelist and journalist. She earned a BA degree in English from Princeton University in 1991. She worked as a reporter for several  newspapers, including Centre Daily Times, Lexington Herald-Leader, and The Philadelphia Inquirer . She continued to write for the Inquirer, freelancing on the side for Mademoiselle, Seventeen, and other publications. She has written several novels include: Good in Bed, In Her Shoes, Little Earthquakes, Goodnight Nobody, Certain Girls, Best Friends Forever, Fly Away Home, Then Came You, The Next Best Thing, and Who Do You Love.

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