Latest Emily Giffin Quotes from Interviews

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• That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.

  Emily Giffin

  Shade, Happy Endings, Sometimes

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

• I don't convey that I can be moody or a perfectionist or that I'm a nervous person, but I am all those things. It's just not going to shine through when you're posting a picture.

  Emily Giffin

  Shining, Nervous, Perfectionist

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

• I'm not trying to convey a message, I'm just trying to tell a story.

  Emily Giffin

  Trying, Stories, Messages

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

• I'm very open in terms of sharing bits about my life, but I think it's very easy to get a distorted sense of who anyone is through social media.

  Emily Giffin

  Thinking, Media, Easy

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

• When I write, I picture the characters a certain way in my head, and they're not like any actor or actress. It's almost hard for me to let go of my ideas as to the way they look.

  Emily Giffin

  Letting Go, Writing, Character

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

• I think that we have to consciously be aware that every moment we're in, every different stage in our lives, we can control.

  Emily Giffin

  Thinking, Different, Moments

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

• In my stories, I think, as I've gotten older, the characters have become stronger and more independent, and more capable of making unconventional decisions.

  Emily Giffin

  Character, Independent, Thinking

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

• I'm nostalgic and I do think about a "what if."

  Emily Giffin

  Thinking, What If, Nostalgic

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meters, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

• I think some of the biggest time sucks are regret and guilt, and I have to fight against those things all the time. In a way, it's a good thing, because it can motivate you to make amends and forgive, but regrets are really, I think, a supreme waste of time in many ways.

  Emily Giffin

  Regret, Fighting, Thinking

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

• Some of my very closest friends are my guy friends, going back to the third grade, so I believe in the integrity of the male-female friendship.

  Emily Giffin

  Integrity, Believe, Guy

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

• I think the most well-adjusted people live in the present with an eye toward the future - I'm not among those.

  Emily Giffin

  Eye, Thinking, People

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

• I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person.

  Emily Giffin

  Writing, Firsts, Common

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

• I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.

  Emily Giffin

  Real, Writing, Character

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

• I try to be true to the characters that I've created and sometimes I disagree with them, but their opinions about the story and the characters really matter to me.

  Emily Giffin

  Character, Trying, Stories

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

• My relationship with my sister is so central to my life. She's my closest friend, my biggest supporter, and I know she would say the same about me.

  Emily Giffin

  My Sister, Knows, Closest Friends

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

• I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story.

  Emily Giffin

  Reading, Writing, Fiction

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.