Jennifer Weiner Quotes

Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.

Your first love is important. It's part of your story. The story you'll tell yourself, the one you'll tell about yourself, for the rest of your life.

drawing of a boy with brown hair and

Sometimes the point isn't to end up with something worth showing the world. Sometimes it's just rehearsal.

seventeen, tells her

There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.

Mooo," she said ... "I mean mmmm," she moaned. Louder this time. Goddamn Dr. Seuss is ruining my sex life.

You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.

Still waters run deep, I'd thought. Later, I learned that silence did not necessarily guarantee depth.

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

He'd been lonely, and I'd been lonely, but if we were together, we'd never have to be lonely again.

I'm not in charge of my life.

I don't like futons. They can't commit. I'm a bed! I'm a couch! I'm a bed! I'm a couch!

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn't.

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.

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

I want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear.

Long as people can still surprise you, it means you're not dead.

conversation with Dave, telling him what had happened.

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

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

You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.

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

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.

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.

I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.

Toronto Sydney New Delhi

Found, I told myself. Try to get found.

It's just you and the track and the clock. It's the most elemental thing there is-the simplest and the hardest. No everybody is cut out for it.

F.E.A.R. Stood for face everything and recover

It was as if real life had been canceled for the day.

I didn't trust people who forgot to eat.

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

Face and figure from my dad's mother, Grandma Sadie, who was tall,

Took him to a rink. Andy had watched the other skaters,

You don't get perfect-but I was going to grab this happiness and hold it as tightly as I could. I was going to enjoy it for as long as it lasted.

I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.

She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name ...

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

Holding a bottle of Evian water

Someone had come in and mopped the floor, and the disinfectant smell was

Husbands and houses are negotiable," she said, "And as for a plan ... we'll figure it out.

Hell is an Eagles game where the bleachers are always freezing, the team is always loosing, and my family is insane

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.

The measure of a man is, does he know how to love.

mom with a part-time (inching

People don't like to see things that aren't perfect. It reminds them of what could go wrong in their own lives, I guess.

I like blogs. they're good times.

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive ... it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.

You have to open yourself up to the universe's possibilities.

Have you ever considered that there might be something wrong with your brain?
Oh, I think there might be something wrong with everyone else's.

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

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

Hefty? I'd railed to Peter, waving the clipping for emphasis. Hefty? For the record 'Hefty' is a trash bag. I'm festively plump.

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

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

Born on third base and think they hit a triple,

Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest.

I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.

You'll get through it, she said, leaving out the part I already knew-because you're a mother now. Because mothers don't have a choice.

This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.