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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 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.' "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" When I was a little girl, I was a real, drippy bookworm. But when I went into fashion, I stopped reading. "

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

" If you feel that your father was lacking as a husband, it affects your own choice of man. "

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

" If you have a calling, you need to let it find you. "

" I married someone I didn't love. I was too polite to say no. "

" Nick Hornby's a genius. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 am the oldest of three girls and the only one not named after one of my father's ex-girlfriends. "

" 'Ralph's Party' was a romantic comedy, and at the end of it, the two main characters, Ralph and Jen, kiss for the first time and think they're going to be happy together. Then, 10 years later, I wrote a sequel in which they've been together for 10 years and are about to split up. "

" 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. "

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

" There's a weird contrast between my usual daily routine and then my book coming out. It's like someone's just suddenly opened the curtains in a dark room, and everyone's looking at you. "

" 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?' "

" In 1995, I was 27, and I completely got caught up in Blur and Oasis and the fashion of the time. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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