293 Quotes by Jennifer Weiner

I’m not sure whether that had to do with the humor, or with the unfashionable fairy-tale ending, which is very different from much of what I read in The New Yorker, where short stories seem to end with someone staring off at the white walls of a white room, and you think that something’s happened but you’re not quite sure what.

There are friends who tell you, “Someday you’ll laugh about this.” Susan’s my best friend because, with her, “someday” is always now.

I’m not in charge of my life.

Make sure you have people who love you, the real you, not the Instagram you.

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

First of all, it’s life. You don’t win.

What fairy tale was it, Bethie wondered, where you could fly as long as you thought lovely thoughts, but as soon as you stopped you came crashing back to earth?

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

I was going to eat to nourish myself, I was going to exercise to feel strong and healthy, I was going to let go of the idea of ever being thin, once and for all, and live my life in the body that I had.