“The best thing about being an author is writing stories and having peo...” — Emily Giffin Quote

“The best thing about being an author is writing stories and having people - strangers all over the world - connect with them.”

“Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult.”

“I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person.”

“My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.”

“There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.”

“The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a suspect might think. Instead, they treat the reader as an intelligent friend, and describe the book as honestly, and as entertainingly, as possible.”