Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate, back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.
Jennifer Weiner
You don't get perfect-but I was going to grab this happiness and hold it as tightly as I could. I was going to enjoy it for as long as it lasted.
happiness
You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.
inspirational
Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.
reading writing book-lovers
Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.
writing storytelling
Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.
writing
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?
funny humor writing
Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.
change fear
If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?
health exercise
The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. Its rhe reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.
pregnancy sex safe-sex
myth sex
Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.
divorce
He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.
breakups
Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.
people character
I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?
people
People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.
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