Jennifer Weiner
Jennifer Weiner
Jennifer Weiner is an American writer, television producer, and former journalist. She is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 March 1970
CityDe Ridder, LA
CountryUnited States of America
people done jennifer
I love it when people ask if Jennifer Weiner is a pen name. Um, if I wanted a pen name I could have done a LOT better than this!
beach book writing
I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.
writing men fiction
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.
giving safe wonder
I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.
book
Back in the day, when I was starting out, I'd get five or 10 emails and I'd respond to every one. But after my third or fourth book it got too time-consuming.
study princeton
I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.
worry want use
Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they don't want to be pregnant.
writing kids thinking
I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?
world
There are a lot of women like me in the world, and we rarely get to see ourselves.
people exploitation
Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.
believe writing ifs
I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.
tongue conversation get-real
I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.
character loyal
My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.
writing college years
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.