Jen Lancaster
Jen Lancaster
JenniferLancasteris an American author whose titles have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. As of August 2015, she has twelve published books...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
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I hesitated before buying a Kindle. I wasn't worried that the digital reader would ruin literature as we know it. Rather, my concern centered on using an electronic device in the bathtub.
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I just thank God my husband and I found each other before the advent of social media. I can't imagine dating someone and seeing what they're doing on their Facebook page. And people breaking up with each other over texts now? We had to break up with each other face to face back then.
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I realized I couldn't have one foot in the fiction world and one foot in the nonfiction world, which is why 'Here I Go Again' is so not me. I didn't graduate from high school in the '90s, I never listened to metal music, and I don't time travel.
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Beauty pageants, you're only judged once. Sorority rush, you have to go through 20 parties.
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I had been terrified of Halloween my entire adult life. Loved it as a kid, but the minute I got out of college, there were little kids at my door demanding candy, which, No. 1, I couldn't afford, and, No. 2, if I had candy, it would be mine.
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I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club' by Chuck Palahniuk.
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I married a man who isn't afraid to wash a dish, scrub a toilet, or have his unibrow waxed into submission by a licensed professional.
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I didn't understand the Kindle's true value until I finished an e-book on the beach. In sixty seconds - and without benefit of pants - I had brand-new reading material at my fingertips.
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Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.
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I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.
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I never sleep on the plane. I have to be awake and using my mind power to keep it in the air
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Everyone who reads me is someone I'd like to hang out with.
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I'm the person who says every single thing she thinks, sometimes to others' amusement, and almost always to my detriment.
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Quinn Cummings is a master story-teller and her book is nothing short of delightful. Her insights into topics like celebrity, parenting, and cats with a taste for homicide are pithy and uproarious and not to be missed. Notes from the Underwire is charming, hilarious, and just snarky enough to be ultimately satisfying.