American - Writer | March 28, 1970 -
The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.
Jennifer Weiner
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Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.
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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 private.
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I've always been interested in the economics of reproduction, who gets what they want when it comes to childbearing and how these days, money is a tremendous advantage.
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I'm not in charge of my life.
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I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.
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I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.
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I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.
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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.
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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 things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.
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If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.
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I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
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