Quotes About Elin Hilderbrand

My books, I will say one thing - they all have a driving narrative, and you have to turn the pages, and the way you do that is to create characters that you really love and care about and put them in a fairly dire situation.

I live a life very similar to my characters in that I live a full-blown summer fantasy from June to September. I go to the beach and work there every day.

Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.

Eddie has long joked that the two most useful backgrounds for a real estate broker are psychology and elementary education.

What I'd really like is a teaspoon of white sugar in my regular Lipton tea. Not honey, not agave, not raw organic turbinado. Just good old white processed sugar." "Does Mrs. Quinn keep something as toxic as that in the house?" Lara asks.

That sounds like more of your revisionist history.

It's disorienting to visit the Vineyard in the manner of the lowliest of tourists: the day-tripper.

Although the hotel in the book is a creation of my imagination, the Nantucket Hotel does have certain similarities: It has both rooms and suites, a family pool and an adult pool, a fabulous fitness center, a yoga

I was a huge fan of J. Courtney Sullivan's novel 'Maine,' and like that novel, 'Saint' is a family saga set in Boston. Irish Catholic family secrets - is there anything better?

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

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