Jennifer Weiner Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Book

• Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Reading, Writing

• 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.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, White, Miracle

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.500, Simon and Schuster

• And then he left, and came back, and our lives fell apart, like a well-loved book that you’d read and read again, until one night you picked it up to read yourself to sleep and the binding collapsed, sending dozens of pages spiraling toward the floor.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Sleep, Night

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

• They wouldn’t have believed me, and if they had they would have wanted me to explain. And I had no explanation, no answers. When you’re on a battleground, you don’t have the luxury of time to dwell on the various historical factors and sociopolitical influences that caused the war. You just keep your head down and try to survive it, to shove the pages back in the book, close the covers and pretend that nothing’s broken, nothing’s wrong.

  Jennifer Weiner

  War, Book, Luxury

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

• 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

  Book, Kids, Different

• There's a part of me with every book that thinks, What would it have meant for me tohave had this book when I was a kid? I decided to create a book for girls like me. The Littlest Bigfoot is about bullying and body image and girls who don't fit in. It's like training wheels for my adult books - like Sex and the City, but with 12-year-olds.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Girl, Bullying, Sex

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

• My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Real, Book

• I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the last great book I read.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, People, Lasts

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• 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

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

• I think I'm much more comfortable talking about other books than my own!

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• It's like if a young woman writes it, then it's chick lit. We don't care if she's slaying vampires or working as a nanny or living in Philadelphia. It's chick lit, so who cares? You know what we call what men write? Books.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Writing, Men

• I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for books I love.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Media, Giving

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Daughter, Mother, Book

  "A feminist fights back against 'chick lit' label" by Jane Ganahl, www.sfgate.com. October 30, 2005.

• 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.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Heart, Steps

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

• 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.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, May, Assumption

• 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

  Book, Writing, Thinking

• 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

  Struggle, Book, Men

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

• Back in the day, when I was starting out, I'd get five or 10 emails and I'd respond to every one. But after my third or fourth book it got too time-consuming.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Email, Starting Out

• 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

  Beach, Book, Writing

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

• Stephen King writes mass fiction but gets reviewed by the New York Times and writes for the New Yorker. Critics say to me, "Shut up and enjoy your money," and I think, OK, I'll shut up and enjoy my money, but why does Stephen King get to enjoy his money and get reviewed on the cover of the New York Times Sunday Book Review?

  Jennifer Weiner

  Kings, New York, Book

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

• When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it tends to speak to the reviewer's anxieties rather than the book itself.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Careers, Anxiety

• 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

  Book, Writing, Names

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

• I think there are a lot of books about thin, attractive people having thin, attractive people's problems. I'm better set up to tell a different story.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Thinking, People

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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