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Jennifer Weiner...thinking that the world was like an orange, that I could split it open with my thumbnail and find a whole different world, the grown-up world, the secrets beneath the skin.
Jennifer WeinerI was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
Jennifer WeinerRead everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.
Jennifer WeinerThey wouldnโt have believed me, and if they had they would have wanted me to explain. And I had no explanation, no answers. When youโre on a battleground, you donโt have the luxury of time to dwell on the various historical factors and sociopolitical influences that caused the war. You just keep your head down and try to survive it, to shove the pages back in the book, close the covers and pretend that nothingโs broken, nothingโs wrong.
Jennifer Weiner