Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
Jennifer WeinerThe truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard...Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.
Jennifer WeinerCharacter 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 WeinerThe 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 WeinerOkay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only place u can go. You keep going until it stops hurting, or until you find new things to hurt you worse, I guess. And that is the human condition, all of us lurching along in our own private miseries, because that's the way it is. Because, I guess, God didn't give us any choice. You grow up, I remembered Abigail telling me. You learn.
Jennifer Weiner