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Lisa Jewell

Profession : Author

Birth : July 19, 1968

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

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It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on reading and writing again. He had so many paperbacks, I didn't have to buy a book for four and a half years.

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

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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.

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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.

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A strange side effect of sudden success is the sense that if you can succeed in one field, then it might well be worth trying to succeed in another.

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

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Nick Hornby's a genius.

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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.'

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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.

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

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My mother died in 2005. She was 61 years old.

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

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'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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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