631 Quotes by Jojo Moyes

Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.

But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.

My go-to winter recipe is beef and butternut squash stew, cooked in the slow oven all day.

I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.

I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.

You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.

I find my best writing time is actually 6 A.M., before the detritus of the day - the fish fingers and the school uniform and dogs and bills - have had a chance to clog up my brain. I can usually get 500 words done before 7 A.M. But it is difficult, and the Internet, and social networking, are terrible timesucks.

If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.

If chick-lit really is taking a commercial battering, I'd suggest it's because the marketing has been done to death. Covering everything in girlie pink and putting chocolate in the title may once have been a clever Pavlovian device but now makes readers feel a bit sick.