Jennifer Weiner

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

#books #coming #could #i #i think

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 #break #dad #doing #give

Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they don't want to be pregnant. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#me #now #possibility #pregnant #right

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

#audience #being #get #live #never

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. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#bigger #consumers #critically #esteemed #far

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.' ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#back #back-up #get #go #i

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#being #day #female #get #hard

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#doing #ever #every #exception #i

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

#almost #became #because #day #fiction

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#believe #could #i #nobody #really