Jennifer Weiner Quotes

• You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.

  Jennifer Weiner

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• Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.

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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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• There’s something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.

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• The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence – the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day – the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you’ve got something worth saying.

  Jennifer Weiner

• 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 want to be pregnant.

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• 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 can.

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• People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, ‘You write these things I think but I could never say.’

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• My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing ‘The Aeneid’ and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

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• My book sales make ‘real writers’ possible.

  Jennifer Weiner

• Money is a tremendous advantage in just about everything, but in terms of reproduction, if you’re a poor woman and you are infertile, it’s like too bad, so sad. And if you are a wealthy woman, you can kind of buy whatever you want.

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• Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the ‘if you weren’t a writer’ question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like ‘do, do, do.’

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• Instead of hoping that some day the boys’ club will open its doors, we can form our own clubs, define ‘worthy’ our own way, and celebrate the books and voices that we decide deserve celebration.

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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’ might notice you.

  Jennifer Weiner

• 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 dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You’ll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.

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• I’ve always been interested in the economics of reproduction, who gets what they want when it comes to childbearing and how these days, money is a tremendous advantage.

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• I’m not in charge of my life.

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• I’m not cut out to be a famous person; I can’t do my hair and makeup well enough.

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• 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 in my life.

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• I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

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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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