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" 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. "

Lisa Jewell

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

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Love

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Nick Hornby's a genius. "

Lisa Jewell

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Nick

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

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

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

Lisa Jewell

Been

Age

" Writing a book is not easy. "

" 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. "

" Flowers would be wasted on me. I don't like valentines. I don't need gifts. I'm a pragmatic romantic. "

Lisa Jewell

Gifts

" '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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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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