To write convincingly, I think you must be able to relate, in some way, to what a character is experiencing. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I think exercise is critical to my writing and an essential way to recharge. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
There are people and places and events you'd prefer to forget or at least gloss over. In the end, you can slap… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
When I write, I picture the characters a certain way in my head, and they're not like any actor or actress. It's… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
there is always something comforting about knowing that you are not alone. That other people feel the way you do. That you… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Which always raises the interesting question of whether redheads pursue other redheads in a narcissistic way, or simply, because they have no… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I think some of the biggest time sucks are regret and guilt, and I have to fight against those things all the… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Surely he knows we are all watching. That I am watching. It is always that way when you are in a group… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I nod, thinking of how difficult marriage can be, how much effort is required to sustain a feeling between two people -… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Yet here we are, two children and a broken promise later, standing before each other, just the way we stood that day… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life:… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I had seen the light, come to believe that a wedding should be about a feeling between two people, not a show… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Then he continues his rant,saying, "And even if I didn't know them, I know their type." "And what type is that?" she… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I think exercise is critical to my writing and an essential way to recharge. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Well, anyway… it’s over,” I say, realizing that those two words lump me right in with a hoard of naive women who say it’s… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life... — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“It occurs to me that she is not unique--that all women compare lives. We are aware of whose husband works more, who helps more… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“I desperately want to feel that way again. To be in a relationship that I’m not trying to script or water down. It’s about… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
