Lisa Jewell Quotes
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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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Publishers have published women's fiction into a corner, and now we are all trying to punch our way out of it. We just have to write the best books we possibly can and hope that, once the pink covers and Bridget Jones have faded from memory, we might finally be allowed just to be called writers.
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My parents' marriage was, on an aesthetic level, very pleasing to behold.
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Whenever I watch any kind of competition, my immediate reaction when they call out the name of the winner is to look at the loser.
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I don't think my first book was chick lit.
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I take the six weeks of the school summer holidays off because I'm pretty sure I'm not going to look back on my life one day and say, 'Damn, I wish I hadn't spent so much time with my children.'
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I like the fact that my husband and I have been together for a long time and have a warm and colourful history together.
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I must always, always have a box of Extra chewing gum in my bag because I have developed a terrible cheek-chewing compulsion. It's not only uncomfortable, but I look really weird when I'm doing it, and chewing gum is the only way I can stop myself.
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Nick Hornby's a genius.
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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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Sometimes you need to be shaken out of a situation.
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When we were kids, we couldn't wait to have our own rooms, not to have to share anymore. And that is what I love about having my own bedroom. It is mine. My sleep is mine. Both pillows are mine. If I wake up, it is me who has woken me up... It makes me feel like a grown-up. I love it.
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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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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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Getting married young was the worst experience of my life. It was horrible - really horrible.
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If you can start and finish a book, then you're already a million miles ahead of all those people who talk about wanting to write a book.
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I would never, for the sake of the story or a twist, have a character do something that they just wouldn't do. I really couldn't. I'd rather miss out on the twist.
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Every brilliant book I read is an influence and an inspiration. As is every brilliant movie I watch and every brilliant box set.
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If you feel that your father was lacking as a husband, it affects your own choice of man.
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If you have a calling, you need to let it find you.
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My father, Anthony, was a textile agent who sold fabric in the West End and was away a lot. He was very glamorous. When he first met my mum, he swept her off into this big, social world.
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My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and again The Story of Her Childhood. It was Grimmsian, Andersenesque: a classic fairy tale replete with goodies and baddies.
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My husband loves having his own room.
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'Ralph's Party' was supposed to be a psychological thriller, but I fell in love with all my characters and wanted only the best for them.