Jennifer Weiner Quotes

I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.

Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short cuts.

I wrote 'Time Stops at Shamli' in 1956, shortly after 'The Room on the Roof' was published, and I couldn't find anyone to publish it.

It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel.

Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane; another won't get over the right stile.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

I was definitely meant to be a young adult author, and I love it - I'm here to stay!

I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that, one book led to another as I discovered other facets to my characters I wanted to investigate further.

You know what I loved about 'Sideways'? Well, the wine, of course. But it was one of the few movies in which being a writer was realistically depicted. I loved how the Paul Giamatti character tries so ineptly to talk about his book.

If I could wave a magic wand and be anything, I'd be a really respected, really successful author. That's a hard combination to get, though. I really enjoy acting, and it's easier, frankly.

I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off.

As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

I want to be an author.

As a writer, I'm always aware of the fact that there are so many books out there.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.