Elin Hilderbrand Quotes

United States, Writer
July 17, 1969

Elin Hilderbrand is an American writer of summer beach read romance novels. Hilderbrand's novels have all been set on and around Nantucket Island where she lives with three children. She was born and raised in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, and was previously a teaching/writing fellow at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.

Elin Hilderbrand
- Time
- Forgotten
- Late
For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.

Elin Hilderbrand
- Up
- Writing
- Country

I am a summer person.

Elin Hilderbrand
- Summer
Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

Elin Hilderbrand
- Fear
- Guilt
- Worse
Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.

Elin Hilderbrand
- Done
- Things
- Regret
Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean.

Elin Hilderbrand
- Culture
- Food
- City
If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you. But this, of course, was bullshit. If you loved something and let it go...it would find something else to love.

Elin Hilderbrand
- Love
- Free
- Find
When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.

Elin Hilderbrand
- Life
- Guess
- Windows