E. L. James Quotes
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I'm not a great writer.
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Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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I hate having my photograph taken.
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God forbid that women have fantasies.
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All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
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I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
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I really like clever men who challenge you.
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Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.
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I'm a bit of a control freak.
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I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.
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Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.
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I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.
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I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.
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I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading 'Fifty Shades.'
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If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
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I vowed I would bring you solace in time of need. Please don't make me break my vows.