166 Quotes by Lisa Jewell

My mother had breast cancer when she was 39.

There's something uniquely unsettling about the unhinged woman on a single-minded mission. Especially when she's the last person you ever imagined to harbour a dark and seething soul.

If you feel that your father was lacking as a husband, it affects your own choice of man.

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.

My first husband dragged me out of London and made me live in the suburbs in Surrey - not where you want to be when you're 23.

Everyone thinks they've got a book inside them.

I don't think my first book was chick lit.

My mother was born on February 8, 1944, in Lucknow, India. Her father, Albert, was half-Indian and half-Portuguese.

Getting married young was the worst experience of my life. It was horrible - really horrible.