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Lisa Jewell
Profession : Author
Birth : July 19, 1968
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Publishers have published women's fiction into a corner, and now we are all trying to punch our way out of it. We just have to write the best books we possibly can and hope that, once the pink covers and Bridget Jones have faded from memory, we might finally be allowed just to be called writers.
Lisa Jewell
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.
Lisa Jewell
My husband loves having his own room.
Lisa Jewell
My parents' marriage was, on an aesthetic level, very pleasing to behold.
Lisa Jewell
Don't do a hard sell or try to tell the agent that you're going to be a bestseller or the next John Grisham. This goes down very badly. If your work is good, then they are skilled enough to know this within a few pages.
Lisa Jewell
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
All my main characters have got bits of me, bits of my family, bits of my friends.
Lisa Jewell
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.
Lisa Jewell
I always wanted to write psychological thrillers.
Lisa Jewell
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.
Lisa Jewell
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?'
Lisa Jewell
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.
Lisa Jewell
Flowers would be wasted on me. I don't like valentines. I don't need gifts. I'm a pragmatic romantic.
Lisa Jewell
I like the fact that my husband and I have been together for a long time and have a warm and colourful history together.
Lisa Jewell
In 1995, I was 27, and I completely got caught up in Blur and Oasis and the fashion of the time.
Lisa Jewell
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
The only way you can write about a happy family in a drama is to make them unhappy.
Lisa Jewell
'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.
Lisa Jewell
My publishers find me really challenging, as a lot of the time, I don't even know what I'm going to be writing about until I sit down to do it.
Lisa Jewell
I married someone I didn't love. I was too polite to say no.
Lisa Jewell
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