Words matter. These are the best Jennifer Weiner Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Every mother I’ve ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the ‘Times’ might notice you.
I don’t particularly like being angry about stuff. I’d rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.
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.
People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, ‘You write these things I think but I could never say.’
Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.
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.
Being a novelist is hard for anyone – male or female. You don’t get to quit your day job.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.’
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?’
I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.
I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I’m out of that range, I’m in trouble.
My book sales make ‘real writers’ possible.
