Words matter. These are the best Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It wasn’t until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
I love being a writer so much that I almost can’t believe that I am one.
My passion is capturing what it feels like to love, be it romantic or otherwise. I love to watch two people realize what they meant for each other – and that goes across all media, books, TV, movies, personal essays; everything.
Life is too short to be on a diet.
Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn’t make you look like an idiot.
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.
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.
I’d sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn’t sound like dying cats.
There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
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.
When I wrote my first book, I was too scared to find out how people got books published. I was convinced that you needed some sort of magical potion that I didn’t have.
Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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.
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.
I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
I don’t think I’m capable of writing without caffeine. And most of the time, that caffeine comes from iced tea.
I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles.
I’ve always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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.
You don’t realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up.
You have to know your value, demand to be respected, speak your mind, and dare to ask for what you want. I struggle with every single one of these.
You can’t write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
There is nothing quite like having your book read and truly understood. It’s all the better when it’s someone who knows how to go out there and sell it.
