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" I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one. "
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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" Life is too short to be on a diet. "
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" Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot. "
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" I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would. "
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" There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world. "
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" I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds. "
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" I love reading books that can break my heart. "
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" Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry. "
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" I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles. "
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" Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt. "
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" When I wrote my first book, I was too scared to find out how people got books published. I was convinced that you needed some sort of magical potion that I didn't have. "
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" Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love. "
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" I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers. "
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" I don't think I'm capable of writing without caffeine. And most of the time, that caffeine comes from iced tea. "
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" My passion is capturing what it feels like to love, be it romantic or otherwise. I love to watch two people realize what they meant for each other - and that goes across all media, books, TV, movies, personal essays; everything. "
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" I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project. "
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" Selling a film option and getting a studio on board can be a slow process, and until things are official, you never want to spill the beans. "
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" There is nothing quite like having your book read and truly understood. It's all the better when it's someone who knows how to go out there and sell it. "
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" You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up. "
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" When my husband and I first got married, I was so shocked at my own level of joy that I was convinced it was all going to come crashing down. "
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" We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us, to determine what happens to the people we invent. It is for us alone to determine what is good and bad, just and unjust, appropriate and inappropriate for the worlds we create. I love that about writing books. "
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" I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it. "
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" My husband makes sacrifices so that I can shine. "
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" I am methodical about my email inbox, and I always have a physical to-do list. Without those two things, I think I'd lose my mind. "
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" I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats. "
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" I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each. "
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" As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way. "
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" I am endlessly inspired by both the tenderness that can exist between two people and the excitement of falling in love. I'm very fortunate that I've been able to explore that in novels, a television show, some early development film projects, and essays about my own life. "
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