157 Quotes by Helen Fielding

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    It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

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    I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.

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    I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.

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    The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.

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    There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person.

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    If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.

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    I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.

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