Jennifer Weiner Quotes About Critics

Quotes about: Critics

• 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

• 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

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