166 Quotes by Lisa Jewell
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I knew I wasn't the sort of person who could do a full-time job and write in the evening and at weekends.
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Sometimes you need to be shaken out of a situation.
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Whenever I watch any kind of competition, my immediate reaction when they call out the name of the winner is to look at the loser.
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I changed my mind about being a famous pop star when I realised that it meant I'd never be able to get on the Tube again.
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A strange side effect of sudden success is the sense that if you can succeed in one field, then it might well be worth trying to succeed in another.
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You feel undervalued when you write the kind of fiction I write.
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People say 'chick lit,' and what they mean is 'crap.' And so even though you might sell 100,000 copies of a book, you're never going to win a prize. These are books that people don't just read, they devour them - they stay up into the early hours because they want to devour them.
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I was made redundant from a job as a PA in a shirt-making company in 1996. I was devastated. I had been there for three years, and it was a job I really liked.
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Nick Hornby's a genius.
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