KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Jennifer Weiner Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Jennifer Weiner

Showing 1-10 of 32 Quotes by Jennifer Weiner

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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I've always been interested in the economics of reproduction, who gets what they want when it comes to childbearing and how these days, money is a tremendous advantage.

~Jennifer Weiner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm not in charge of my life.

~Jennifer Weiner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.

~Jennifer Weiner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.

~Jennifer Weiner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Jennifer Weiner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 28th, 1970

Links

Find Jennifer Weiner on Amazon

Related Authors

Ray Bradbury
Dale Carnegie
Robert A. Heinlein
Napoleon Hill
Elbert Hubbard
H. L. Mencken
Dr. Seuss
William Arthur Ward

Popular Authors

Agatha Christie Abraham Lincoln John Muir Satchel Paige Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Alexis De Tocqueville Brendon Urie Sofia Vergara

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1694 - Voltaire

1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher

1787 - Bryan Procter

1863 - Arthur Quiller-Couch

1870 - Alexander Berkman

1886 - Harold Nicolson

1889 - Hugh Kingsmill

1898 - Rene Magritte

1904 - Coleman Hawkins

1907 - Jim Bishop

Birthdays on November 21st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Anniversary Attitude Business Graduation Home Marriage Memorial Day New Year's