Jane Fallon Quotes

Jane Fallon

Profession : Author

Birth : December 6, 1960

I'm such a solitary person that working on my own is perfect for me.

Jane Fallon

Everyone has bits of dysfunction in their families, but I actually have a very nice, happy one.

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People always say, 'My family is so normal,' and when you poke into them, they never are.

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There's something lovely about writing a book, doing what you want. I love the solitariness of it.

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My dad used to cut out newspaper ads and post them to me in the hope I'd get a proper job.

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As an adult, I had to accept that I was not a natural distance runner. Anything more than about 400 metres had me gasping and wheezing like a broken accordion.

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I've always worked out, but running pushed bits of me harder than anything else I had ever done.

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I've always been a glass-half-empty sort of person.

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I suppress stress to the point where it will force its way through my skin in the form of a large angry pimple because that's the only channel it has.

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I'm not a girly girl at all.

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I spent my whole childhood trying to find places to be on my own. I used to sit on the water tank in the attic or in the dog's kennel. I was quite a strange child.

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I've got no desire to be famous myself.

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Bizarrely, I've been called selfish for not having children. Surely it's more selfish to have a child when you don't really want a child?

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One thing that was drummed into me when I was younger is that you have to make your own way in life, that you mustn't expect anyone else to support you.

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Even when I was a kid, I was never interested in any of that marriage or baby stuff.

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I remember watching a 'Big Brother' contestant saying that she wanted to be a footballer's wife. I thought, 'What is the world coming to?'

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My idea of the perfect day is nothing to do and a great book on the go.

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My whole life, I've wanted to be a novelist.

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I think a lot of people assume you need to be born into a special creative family to have a career as a writer. So I never thought it would happen for me.

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When I left university with a history degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do, and I was terrified of accidentally ending up in the wrong career.

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