293 Quotes by Jennifer Weiner

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

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.

Just a regular gal, Jo thought, and smiled, thinking, If you only knew.

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.

Husbands and houses are negotiable,” she said, “And as for a plan... we’ll figure it out.

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.

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

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.

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