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" 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?' "

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" 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. "

Lisa Jewell

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" I write in cafes, never at home. I cannot focus at home, am forever getting off my chair to do other things. In a cafe, I have to sit still, or I'll look a bit unhinged. "

" I tried to write about my first marriage in a fictional version but got two pages into it and realised it was too personal. Then I came up with an old-fashioned love triangle, which became the plot for 'Ralph's Party.' "

" 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. "

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

" I always wanted to write psychological thrillers. "

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

Lisa Jewell

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Age

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

Lisa Jewell

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" Writing a book is not easy. "

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

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

Lisa Jewell

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Characters

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

" When I travel, I can leave everything at home apart from books. I curate my holiday reading rigorously and would be devastated if I found I'd left one at home. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Lisa Jewell

Out

Love

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

" The older I get, the more I love psychological thrillers. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

Lisa Jewell

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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. "