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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. "

Taylor Jenkins Reid

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" Life is too short to be on a diet. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous. "

" I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book. "

" Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much. "

" My husband makes sacrifices so that I can shine. "

" There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world. "

" I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak. "

" 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. "