77 Quotes by Jane Fallon

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I'm not a girly girl at all.

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.