Jennifer Weiner (born March 28, 1970) is an American writer, television producer, and former journalist. She is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Read full biography of Jennifer Weiner →
I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.
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.
I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.
I'm not in charge of my life.
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice... →
My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'
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.
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... →
Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a... →
Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in... →
I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have... →
I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the... →
Jennifer Weiner (born March 28, 1970) is an American writer, television producer, and former journalist. She is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.