Things happen, and you can't make them unhappen. You don't get do-overs, you can't roll back the clock, and the only thing you can change, and the only thing it does any good to worry about, is how you let them affect you.

Found, I told myself. Try to get found.

My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.

I have these "pinch me" moments when I realize I got to be the thing I wanted to be growing up. I'm right where I belong.

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

I love it when people ask if Jennifer Weiner is a pen name. Um, if I wanted a pen name I could have done a LOT better than this!

I was 45 when I wrote most of this book [Hungry Heart ], at what felt like a halfway point in my life, and I thought, If I can't be honest now, when will it happen? It was so hard to step away from the [protection of] fiction, but I'm ready to talk start telling their truth.