Quotes from Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

My husband makes sacrifices so that I can shine.

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.

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

Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.

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

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 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.

You have to know your value, demand to be respected, speak your mind, and dare to ask for what you want. I struggle with every single one of these.

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

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

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

Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.

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.

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.

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 reading books that can break my heart.

Life is too short to be on a diet.

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

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.

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 came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.