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Jennifer Weiner
Jennifer Weiner
American Writer
Born: Mar 28, 1970
Day Job People Women Writing You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
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
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Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private. Jennifer Weiner
Day Job Kind Having Had Day Job Almost Forbidden Became Because Private Off Sneak Where Fiction Again Fueled Really Found Thing
I've always been interested in the economics of reproduction, who gets what they want when it comes to childbearing and how these days, money is a tremendous advantage. Jennifer Weiner
Money Economics Tremendous Advantage Days Always How Been Gets Want Reproduction Interested Who
I'm not in charge of my life. Jennifer Weiner
Life My Life Charge
I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention. Jennifer Weiner
Family Man Woman Book Old Feelings Think Considers Topics Critic About Beach Something Writes Attention Unworthy Very Same Short Romance Holds Literature Double Capital Standard Serious
I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today. Jennifer Weiner
Life Funny Today Hope Women Men Men And Women Books Say Thoughtful Entertaining About Write Also Families America Children Fiction Literary Literary Fiction Things
There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels. Jennifer Weiner
You Writing Nice Live About Something Wednesday Never Studio Performed Audience Get Tuesday Being Really Novels Watching
Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job. Jennifer Weiner
Day You Job Day Job Female Male Get Quit Being Anyone Your Hard Novelist
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. Jennifer Weiner
Life My Life First Single Books Kid Married Had Wrote Got Were Different Happening Then Different Things Things
Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation. Jennifer Weiner
You People Money Power Exploitation Potential Over Whenever Less Less Money
Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do. Jennifer Weiner
Best Mother Job Met Every Pretty Exception She Without Doing Much Ever
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. Jennifer Weiner
Best Good Me People Writing Men Say People Say About Give Give Me Doing Left Break Dad
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
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My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit. Jennifer Weiner
Work Writing Old Feeling Own Would About My Own Could Call Still Chick Lit Mommy
My book sales make 'real writers' possible. Jennifer Weiner
Book Possible Writers Make Real Sales
People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.' Jennifer Weiner
Saying Me You People Think Books Say Could Write Never Always Coming Up Things
I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish. Jennifer Weiner
Work Women Safe Place Our About Give Safe Talk Because Wonder Place Us Novels
I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well. Jennifer Weiner
Conversation Other Tends Writers Well Tied Around Go Get Really Tongue

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