Quote

My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.

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
Stories
Publisher
Character
Publishers
Feels
Loyal
Readers
Characters
Reader
Creating
Voice

More quotes by Jennifer Weiner

Image
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.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard...Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.
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
My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
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?
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
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.
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 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
Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
I like blogs. they're good times.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
There are a lot of women like me in the world, and we rarely get to see ourselves.
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
The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
I don't think any writer chooses what his or her work is called.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.
Jennifer Weiner
Image
As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it didn’t matter, I knew that to her it did.
Jennifer Weiner