Quotes from Elin Hilderbrand

I jog every day for seven to eight miles a day.

I can cook a good soup from scratch, this is true, and I do know how to drive a stick shift.

I am a very nerdy reader in that I am as disciplined about my reading as I am about my writing.

The nice thing about e-books is that if you're sitting on the beach and you finish one Elin Hilderbrand novel and don't want to get out of your chair, you can sit there, buy the rest, and load them on your device.

For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.

I have met women who said, 'I started reading you when I sat in the chemo chair, and it made me feel better.' That is as humbling as it gets, to know that you, in some way, made the worst day of their life a little bit better.

I had a Kindle for a brief while, but I dropped it in the ocean, and that was the end of electronic reading for me.

I have long maintained that each of us has three chances a day to be happy: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Without fail, the first question I am asked at any author event is, 'Are your books based on your real life?'

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.