Emily Giffin Quotes

To write convincingly, I think you must be able to relate, in some way, to what a character is experiencing.

Emily Giffin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 20, 1972

Topics

CharacterThinkYouWayWriteMust

When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.

Meg Ryan

GreatSpeakPlanHigh HeelsHigh

You play to whatever publication you're being interviewed by.

Matthew Rhys

YouPlayWhateverBeingPublication

I'm so pathetically eager for people to love D.C. It's so sad. It's like I work for the chamber of commerce or something.

Tucker Carlson

WorkLoveSadPeopleSomethingLike

Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally no boundaries at all.

Robin Hobb

HomeWritingWorldLiteratureRoom

I can see how people work out to feel better.

Derek Jeter

WorkPeopleBetterFeelI CanSee

I went to L.A. to be a drummer in a band.

David Thibodeau

DrummerBand

The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.

Christian Marclay

TogetherProcessEnjoyEditingOut

As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.

Christopher Lee

ChangeCharacterChange The World

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.

Colin Quinn

FunnyGoodWritingImpossibleThink

I loved to read books in the free world, and there was a lot of time to sit around and do nothing in prison. When you read, it opens up your mind; it helped us take our minds away from where we were.

Anthony Ray Hinton

TimeMindWorldFreePrisonLoved

We separate problems with the brain into neurological and psychiatric, and it's because it's stigmatised still. Mental illness is still stigmatised. Imagine if we treated people with cancer like that. Just because your personality changes and your behaviour changes, all of a sudden you are put in a different category.

Susannah Cahalan

PersonalityPeopleBrainProblems

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

Susan Orlean

MyselfCreativeThinkProcrastination

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