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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!
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Jennifer Weiner
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 28
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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.
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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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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.
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If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.
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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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You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.
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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 was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much as I can.
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There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.
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She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name.
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I'm not in charge of my life.
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The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.
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I could have told him that nothing was safe and that no matter how careful you were and how hard you tried, there were still accidents, hidden traps, and snares. You could get killed on an airplane or crossing the street. Your marriage could fall apart when you weren't looking your husband could lose his job our baby could get sick or die.
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There are a lot of women like me in the world, and we rarely get to see ourselves.
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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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So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed.
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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 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.
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