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 don't think any writer chooses what his or her work is called.

I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for books I love.

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.

I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the last great book I read.

The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.

Back in the day, when I was starting out, I'd get five or 10 emails and I'd respond to every one. But after my third or fourth book it got too time-consuming.