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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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 think that not being proactive is a good thing. I like life to unfold on its own.
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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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I always wanted to write psychological thrillers.
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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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You feel undervalued when you write the kind of fiction I write.
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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 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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People with big ideas worry. They lie awake at night and fret as they try to climb up the social or financial ladder. They probably feel proud of themselves for what they've achieved, but I'm proud of the fact that I've done very little - and hence have little to worry about - and I've still got somewhere.
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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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I don't think my first book was chick lit.
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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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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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People say 'chick lit,' and what they mean is 'crap.' And so even though you might sell 100,000 copies of a book, you're never going to win a prize. These are books that people don't just read, they devour them - they stay up into the early hours because they want to devour them.
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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.