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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.
Jennifer Weiner
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Jennifer Weiner
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 28
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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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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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Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
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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.
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Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.
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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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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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I have the best divorce of anyone I've heard of.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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'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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You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.
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When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds and different friends in each one. To this day, I relish the feeling of cracking a binding for the first time, the anticipation of where I'll go and whom I'll meet inside.
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Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.
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I didn’t feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment I would have to live a hundred more years, carrying my grief around like a backpack full of stones.
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Hefty? I'd railed to Peter, waving the clipping for emphasis. Hefty? For the record 'Hefty' is a trash bag. I'm festively plump.
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