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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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" I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers. "

Taylor Jenkins Reid

College

Time

Working

" 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. "

" I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking. "

" You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor. "

" 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. "

" I don't think I'm capable of writing without caffeine. And most of the time, that caffeine comes from iced tea. "

" 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. "

" I am so fortunate to know people who have believed in me and been there for me in my very best and worst moments. "

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Best

I Am

" 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. "

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

" You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up. "

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Stand

You

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one. "

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Believe

Love

" I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet. "

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

" I have often lost whole days jumping from one Wikipedia article after another in an attempt to understand the full scope of marriage as an institution. "

" 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. "

" I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats. "

" Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity. "

" It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution. "

" Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love. "

" 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. "

" I love reading books that can break my heart. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future. "