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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 was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.
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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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There are a lot of women like me in the world, and we rarely get to see ourselves.
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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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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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You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.
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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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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 want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear.
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If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my readers are happy with it.
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My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
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I was 45 when I wrote most of this book [Hungry Heart ], at what felt like a halfway point in my life, and I thought, If I can't be honest now, when will it happen? It was so hard to step away from the [protection of] fiction, but I'm ready to talk start telling their truth.
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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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Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.
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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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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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I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.
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I like blogs. they're good times.
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I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.
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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.
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