Jennifer Weiner Quotes About Giving
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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.
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I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.
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Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.
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Okay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only place u can go. You keep going until it stops hurting, or until you find new things to hurt you worse, I guess. And that is the human condition, all of us lurching along in our own private miseries, because that's the way it is. Because, I guess, God didn't give us any choice. You grow up, I remembered Abigail telling me. You learn.
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I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for books I love.
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