43 Quotes by Joanna Trollope

You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!

It's not so much hearth as family life which is where we all, I'm sure, learn (or fail to learn!) all our life skills for the future.

I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!

I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.

I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person.

I don't need to marry again. I've been married twice, and I love it when it works, but these days we live until we're 80 and marriages are jolly long.

All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the readers that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me.

I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.