Quotes from Emily Giffin

I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices.

It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

The best thing about being an author is writing stories and having people - strangers all over the world - connect with them.

When I meet someone I like being with more than I like being alone, I'll marry her.

there is always something comforting about knowing that you are not alone. That other people feel the way you do. That you are a bit screwed up, but still normal.

Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.

I never outline my novels before I write. I do have a vague sense of beginning, middle, and end at the outset of each book, but for me, writing has always been a very character-driven process.

Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle.

You can only control your own actions. Not other peoples reactions

But one thing I have to say about Darcy and dating is this: she never blew us off for a guy. She always put her friends first- which is an amazing thing for a high school girl to do.

My books aren't autobiographical.

I don't really know why I went to law school.

Blurring the line between friendship and attraction was a surefire to lose a friend.