Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jennifer Weiner
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 28
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
DeRidder
Louisiana
Men
Horror
Mystery
Fiction
Unquote
Read
Speculative
Times
Thrillers
Write
Quote
Might
Mysteries
Writing
Notice

More quotes by Jennifer Weiner

Image
My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
I think there are a lot of books about thin, attractive people having thin, attractive people's problems. I'm better set up to tell a different story.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
I'm not in charge of my life.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle my mother-in-law, chop her into little pieces, and dump them down a sewer.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
I'm not cut out to be a famous person I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
I like blogs. they're good times.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
I have the best divorce of anyone I've heard of.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
Maybe it stems from my newspaper-reporting days, but I took notes the whole time - getting the call, how I felt. As soon as I put pen to paper, it became a story [Hunger Heart], not something happening to me but something I was recording.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate,back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
She thought of what it would be like to grow up without the one certainty that every baby deseved - when I'm hurt or cold or scared, someone will come and care for me - and how that absence could warp you so that you'd lash out at the people you loved, driving them away when all you wanted to do was pull them closer.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
I will love myself, and my body, for what it can do- because it is strong enough to lift, to walk, to ride a bicyle up a hill, to embrace the people I love and hold them fully, and to nurture a new life. I will love myself because I am sturdy. Because I did not -will not- break.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
I struggle with the fact that men's popular fiction is talked about differently. Books like mine don't get as many reviews and probably won't win any prizes, but they entertain the pants off of hundreds of thousands of women.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
I love it when people ask if Jennifer Weiner is a pen name. Um, if I wanted a pen name I could have done a LOT better than this!
Jennifer Weiner