American - Writer | March 28, 1970 -
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.
Jennifer Weiner
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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.
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Instead of hoping that some day the boys' club will open its doors, we can form our own clubs, define 'worthy' our own way, and celebrate the books and voices that we decide deserve celebration.
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Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
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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.
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Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they don't want to be pregnant.
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Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.
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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 sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'
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My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.
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My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
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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.
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