Latest Jennifer Weiner Quotes from Interviews

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• 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

• Do I want to spend my diminished working hours writing or answering email? Now I have somebody read through them. If someone has something really important to tell me I write back. Otherwise they get the auto reply.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, Important, Email

• The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, Ideas, Presumptuous

• There are a lot of women like me in the world, and we rarely get to see ourselves.

  Jennifer Weiner

  World, Like Me

• 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

• If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, Labels, Genius

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

  Jennifer Weiner

  Character, Voice, Creating

• 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

• There's nothing wrong with keeping your mouth shut if you don't have anything nice to say.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Nice, Keeping Your Mouth Shut, Mouths

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• I don't think any writer chooses what his or her work is called.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Thinking

• I grew up with a feminist mom and the understanding that, as someone coming from a position of (relative) privilege, it was my job to speak up when things weren't fair.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Mom, Jobs, Feminist

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• I hope that's what I've taught my girls - to be fair, to recognize their own position and their own good fortune, to use their voices to make things better. Beyond that, I'd tell them just to be kind.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Girl, Voice, Be Kind

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• 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 love it when people ask if Jennifer Weiner is a pen name. Um, if I wanted a pen name I could have done a LOT better than this!

  Jennifer Weiner

  Names, People, Done

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• I was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much as I can.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Helping Others, Careers, Lucky

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• My lazy, unfair assumption is that everything's easier when you're young and stunning. And maybe it is! But I'd like to see for myself.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Lazy, Assumption, Unfair

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• 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

• My sense is that beautiful women are living in a different world than I am, and that it's a world with benefits but also drawbacks - like, you're on a ticking clock, because the day you stop being supermodel-beautiful is the day that everything the world has to offer you is no longer being offered.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Beautiful, Different, Benefits

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• I'd love to spend a day being supermodel beautiful.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Beautiful, Supermodel

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• I have these "pinch me" moments when I realize I got to be the thing I wanted to be growing up. I'm right where I belong.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Growing Up, Realizing, Moments

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

• I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, Enjoy, Take Time

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

• 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

• 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

• I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Daughter, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com