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

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" There are people out there who would enjoy my books but wouldn't pick them up because they think it's not going to be for them. I find it infuriating.There's a lot more going on in my books than just romance. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My mother was born on February 8, 1944, in Lucknow, India. Her father, Albert, was half-Indian and half-Portuguese. "

" Every brilliant book I read is an influence and an inspiration. As is every brilliant movie I watch and every brilliant box set. "

" 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. "

" I was made redundant from a job as a PA in a shirt-making company in 1996. I was devastated. I had been there for three years, and it was a job I really liked. "

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

" All my main characters have got bits of me, bits of my family, bits of my friends. "

" I think that not being proactive is a good thing. I like life to unfold on its own. "

" I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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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. "

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

" 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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" I am a terrible, terrible typist. I could not have been a writer in the age of typewriters. "

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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. "

" Nick Hornby's a genius. "

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