Isabel Gillies Quotes

United States, Actress
February 9, 1970

Isabel Gillies is an American author and former actress. She played Elliot Stabler's wife, Kathy, in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Her memoir Happens Every Day was a New York Times bestseller, and her most recent book is the young adult novel Starry Night.

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

Isabel Gillies
- Writing
- Therapy
If you are heartbroken and can't face the world, you need something with a fantastic plot. You won't be able to read anything boring because your attention span when you are heartbroken decreases by three-quarters.

Isabel Gillies

I really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we're all doing slightly different versions of the same thing.

Isabel Gillies
My mother has always been a worker bee, but she's also a serious foodie.

Isabel Gillies
- Mother
- Bee
- Foodie
Life is funny, at the same time being totally harsh.

Isabel Gillies
- Life
- Funny
- Harsh
Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life.

Isabel Gillies
- Life
- Family
- One
When you have a traumatic event in your life, you change. You're not the same person you were, and you have to discover who you've become.

Isabel Gillies
- Become
- Discover
- Event
I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write.

Isabel Gillies
- Write
- Impulse
- Dyslexic

Growing up, I'll always remember knowing from movies and TV that there was a possibility that you wouldn't fall in love. I always thought, 'Oh my God, I hope I'm not that person.'

Isabel Gillies
Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak.

Isabel Gillies