If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place? Jennifer Weiner More Quotes by Jennifer Weiner More Quotes From Jennifer Weiner 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 benefitsdifferentbeautiful 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. Jennifer Weiner would-bewishwriting 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 inspiringinspirationalbook Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. Jennifer Weiner collegehotfiction 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 paperstoriesheart 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 nameswritingbook 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 trashbagsrecords 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 cokemachinesrocks There's nothing wrong with keeping your mouth shut if you don't have anything nice to say. Jennifer Weiner keeping-your-mouth-shutnicemouths 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 bullyinggirlsex 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 luckycareershelping-others 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 daughterresponsibilitythinking I don't think any writer chooses what his or her work is called. Jennifer Weiner thinking 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. Jennifer Weiner gratefulpeoplethinking 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 singerswould-belong 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 griefstonesyears My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating. Jennifer Weiner creatingvoicecharacter 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 motherhotforever When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds and different friends in each one. To this day, I relish the feeling of cracking a binding for the first time, the anticipation of where I'll go and whom I'll meet inside. Jennifer Weiner miraclewhitebook The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework. Jennifer Weiner stupiddogsound
