What did Jennifer Weiner mean by: I don’t think any writer chooses what his or her work is called. - Jennifer Weiner Author · USA Copy
+ Every mother I’ve ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jennifer Weiner, Mother, 0 - Jennifer Weiner Author · USA
+ If there had been an exercise I’d liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place? Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jennifer Weiner, Exercise, 0 - Jennifer Weiner Author · USA
+ There’s nothing wrong with keeping your mouth shut if you don’t have anything nice to say. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jennifer Weiner, Mouths, 0 - Jennifer Weiner Author · USA
+ I don’t like futons. They can’t commit. I’m a bed! I’m a couch! I’m a bed! I’m a couch! Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jennifer Weiner, Bed, Couches, 0 - Jennifer Weiner Author · USA
+ Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jennifer Weiner, Fear, Inertia, 0 - Jennifer Weiner Author · USA
+ She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jennifer Weiner, Hated, 0 - Jennifer Weiner Author · USA
+ I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I’m out of that range, I’m in trouble. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jennifer Weiner, Trouble, Tunes, 0 - Jennifer Weiner Author · USA
+ I also believe that if you’re really a writer, you’ll write, and that nobody could stop you. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jennifer Weiner, Believe, Writing, 0 - Jennifer Weiner Author · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France