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" A strange side effect of sudden success is the sense that if you can succeed in one field, then it might well be worth trying to succeed in another. "

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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. "

" Nick Hornby's a genius. "

" No man ever fell in love with me for the way I fill out a Lycra dress. "

" If one of my romantic-comedy colleagues had written and directed 'Love Actually,' they would have been torn limb from limb. I thought it was awful, contrived, dreadful. I could see every twist and turn. I thought it was despicable. It was the writing that got me. "

" That whole idea of chick lit being a thing that you just lump all the commercial female writers into - it went on for years.I'd switch on the radio, and I'd hear, 'Two female authors are here to discuss chick lit - is it dead?' and I'd think, 'Argh, no, not again. Are we seriously still having this conversation?' "

" It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on reading and writing again. He had so many paperbacks, I didn't have to buy a book for four and a half years. "

" For me, the optimum circumstances for writing a book are those of stultifying routine. "

" Everyone thinks they've got a book inside them. "

" Sometimes you need to be shaken out of a situation. "

" I knew I wasn't the sort of person who could do a full-time job and write in the evening and at weekends. "

" 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. "

" There's something uniquely unsettling about the unhinged woman on a single-minded mission. Especially when she's the last person you ever imagined to harbour a dark and seething soul. "

" 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. "

" The only way you can write about a happy family in a drama is to make them unhappy. "

" 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. "

" My parents' marriage was, on an aesthetic level, very pleasing to behold. "

" 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. "

" I don't think my first book was chick lit. "

" I never had one of those glorious young bodies that make older men and women weep. So I don't tend to look back with nostalgia or yearn for what I've lost. Because it was never all that. "

" I like the fact that my husband and I have been together for a long time and have a warm and colourful history together. "

" Writing a book is not easy. "

" Getting married young was the worst experience of my life. It was horrible - really horrible. "

" My father was a self-employed textile agent, and the shop below his office was an art gallery. "

" 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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" You feel undervalued when you write the kind of fiction I write. "

" 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. "

" 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. "