Lisa Jewell Quotes
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My mother had breast cancer when she was 39.
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My mother was born on February 8, 1944, in Lucknow, India. Her father, Albert, was half-Indian and half-Portuguese.
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I am the oldest of three girls and the only one not named after one of my father's ex-girlfriends.
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Agents and publishers are always looking for something 'different,' a fresh viewpoint and a new voice, not just re-hashed versions of stuff that's gone before.
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Every time I've written a book, I'm like, 'Oh, it's so different from the last one. Are they going to like it?'
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My mother died in 2005. She was 61 years old.
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I think that not being proactive is a good thing. I like life to unfold on its own.
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For a very long time, I thought everyone I met through the process of getting an agent and a publishing deal had made a mistake. When they agreed to pay me for the book, I thought they would ask me for the money back.
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I married someone I didn't love. I was too polite to say no.
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I changed my mind about being a famous pop star when I realised that it meant I'd never be able to get on the Tube again.
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Writing a book is not easy.
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I write in cafes, never at home. I cannot focus at home, am forever getting off my chair to do other things. In a cafe, I have to sit still, or I'll look a bit unhinged.
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I always wanted to write psychological thrillers.
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I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.
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My first husband dragged me out of London and made me live in the suburbs in Surrey - not where you want to be when you're 23.
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I knew I wasn't the sort of person who could do a full-time job and write in the evening and at weekends.
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I was brought up in the same house I was born in, and I lived there until I left home as an adult. I also went to a Catholic school, which was full of Irish girls whose parents never split up, so everyone I knew had these big family set-ups.
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Ever since 'Single White Female,' the 1990 novel which was turned into a supremely scary film, the idea of a seemingly normal woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants has become an abiding literary trope.
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I don't think my first book was chick lit.
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I don't really get into a writing routine until March or April, when I'll write a few hundred words a day, often in a cafe in the morning after the school run.
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The older I get, the more I love psychological thrillers.
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When I was a little girl, I was a real, drippy bookworm. But when I went into fashion, I stopped reading.
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My marriage is far from perfect. We're not hand-holdy and soft. We are snippy and bickery. We sleep in separate beds because we have no tolerance of each other's night-time idiosyncrasies.
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My parents' marriage was, on an aesthetic level, very pleasing to behold.