Jennifer Weiner Quotes - Page 2

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• Maybe it stems from my newspaper-reporting days, but I took notes the whole time - getting the call, how I felt. As soon as I put pen to paper, it became a story [Hunger Heart], not something happening to me but something I was recording.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Heart, Stories, Paper

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• 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.

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• 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

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• They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Rocks, Machines, Coke

  Jennifer Weiner (2001). “Good in Bed: A Novel”, Atria Books

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Hefty? I'd railed to Peter, waving the clipping for emphasis. Hefty? For the record 'Hefty' is a trash bag. I'm festively plump.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Bags, Records, Trash

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• 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

  Long, Would Be, Singers

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• I didn’t feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment I would have to live a hundred more years, carrying my grief around like a backpack full of stones.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Grief, Years, Stones

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.442, Simon and Schuster

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• I decided.. that I could go on being scared forever, that I could keep walking, that I could carry my rage around, hot and heavy in my chest forever. But maybe there was another way. You have everything you need, my mother had told me. And maybe all I needed was the courage to admit that what I needed was someone to lean on.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Mother, Forever, Hot

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.488, Simon and Schuster

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• This is so much harder than I ever thought it would be...because the thing is, even if you're just working part-time, your boss is going to expect a full week's worth of work, no matter how understanding she is. That's just the nature of the working world-things have to get done, babies or not. And if you're like me-if you're like any woman who ever did well in school and did well at her job-you don't want to disappoint a boss. And you want to do a good job raising your baby...It's not like you think it's going to be

  Jennifer Weiner

  Baby, Jobs, School

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• If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?

  Jennifer Weiner

  Exercise, Firsts, Bigs

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• Writing let me escape... It let me escape the insistent tug of my family, and its ongoing misery. Sitting in front of the computer, with the screen blank and the cursor blinking, was the best escape I knew. And there was plenty to escape from.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, Sitting, Ongoing

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• 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

  Writing, Kids, Thinking

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• I don't like futons. They can't commit. I'm a bed! I'm a couch! I'm a bed! I'm a couch!

  Jennifer Weiner

  Bed, Couches, Futons

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Little Earthquakes”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, you can’t control what they do, but you can control how you respond to it…whether you allow it to drive you crazy, or occupy all of your thoughts, or whether you note what they’re doing, consider it, and make a conscious decision as to how much you’ll let it affect you

  Jennifer Weiner

  Crazy, Decision, Conscious

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Tongue, Conversation, Get Real

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

  Jennifer Weiner

  Believe, Writing, Ifs

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• Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate,back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Girl, Nursing, Men

  Jennifer Weiner (2010). “Fly Away Home”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• But what we're really trapped by is perceptions. You think you need to lose weight for someone to love you. I think if I gain weight, no one will love me. What we really need is to just stop thinking of ourselves as bodies and start thinking of ourselves as people.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Love You, Thinking, People

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Tunes, Three, Trouble

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• I want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear.

  Jennifer Weiner

  People, World, Want

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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