293 Quotes by Jennifer Weiner

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

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

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

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

I'm not in charge of my life.

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.

Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.

Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.

People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.