Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes
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I love reading books that can break my heart.
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Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.
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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.
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I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
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I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.
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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.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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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.
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I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.
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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.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
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I am endlessly inspired by both the tenderness that can exist between two people and the excitement of falling in love. I'm very fortunate that I've been able to explore that in novels, a television show, some early development film projects, and essays about my own life.
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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.
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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.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much.
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I am so fortunate to know people who have believed in me and been there for me in my very best and worst moments.