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
book writing thinking
People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,'
jobs males female
Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
thinking
I don't think any writer chooses what his or her work is called.
I'm not in charge of my life.
glasses fleas thread
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.
men fiction bigger
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 writing voice
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.
dad writing men
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.
book white miracle
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.
book writing men
It's like if a young woman writes it, then it's chick lit. We don't care if she's slaying vampires or working as a nanny or living in Philadelphia. It's chick lit, so who cares? You know what we call what men write? Books.
writing stories novel
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?
nice
There's nothing wrong with keeping your mouth shut if you don't have anything nice to say.
nice writing tuesday
There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.
beautiful matter said
As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it didn’t matter, I knew that to her it did.