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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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" 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. "

Taylor Jenkins Reid

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone. "

" I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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

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I Am

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

Taylor Jenkins Reid

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You

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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