The way I see it,โ she began, โyour motherโs devoted her whole life to you kids.โ She said โyou kidsโ in precisely the same tone I would have used for โyou infestation of cockroaches
Jennifer WeinerIf a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?
Jennifer WeinerDivorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.
Jennifer WeinerMaybe it stems from my newspaper-reporting days, but I took notes the whole time - getting the call, how I felt. As soon as I put pen to paper, it became a story [Hunger Heart], not something happening to me but something I was recording.
Jennifer WeinerCram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.
Jennifer Weiner