Jennifer Weiner Quotes

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.

He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.

Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.

People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.

Head's all empty, I don't care,' he'd sing to me, quoting the Grateful Dead, and I'd force a smile, thinking that my head was never empty and that if it ever was, you could be darn sure I'd care.

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there... whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time.

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

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.

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

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.

If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.

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.

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!

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

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

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

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,'

As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it didn’t matter, I knew that to her it did.

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

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

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

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

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

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

You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.

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.

I like blogs. they're good times.

Baby," groaned the guy-Ted? Tad?-something like that-and crushed his lips against the side of her neck, shoving her face against the wall of the toilet stall.

Found, I told myself. Try to get found.

I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.

This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.

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.

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

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.

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

I have the best divorce of anyone I've heard of.

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.