I dont write literary fiction – I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today. – Jennifer Weiner
Im not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, Ill be funny in real life. Its the inevitable disappointment of meeting me. – Jonathan Safran Foer
Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one? – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
Its hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I dont think its necessarily broader or smarter. – Robert Redford