Jennifer Weiner Quotes

Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to.

I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.

There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed.

Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing.

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

The novel is resilient, and so are novelists.

I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my life.

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

I write, I write, I always write.

I was as eager a writer as I was a reader.

You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer.

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when they've finished the program.

I could not have written a novel if I hadn't been a journalist first, because it taught me that there's no muse that's going to come down and bestow upon you the mood to write. You just have to do it. I'm definitely not precious.

Gather knowledge about the craft of writing. Immerse yourself in the art of it. Then write. Write yourself silly. Write yourself mad. Write yourself blind. Trust the excitement that builds within you when the idea is good and the writing is superb. You can do it, but that's the hell of it as well as the exultation of it. You have to do it.

Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to be.

I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct.

I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.

I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.

When I started writing, it felt good, and I knew I was in the right genre.

I'm basically always writing. Why wouldn't I? I love it.

Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it.

I think I write and publish as often as I do because I can't bear being without a book to work on... I don't feel I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell, but I know I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.