166 Quotes by Lisa Jewell

I knew I wasn't the sort of person who could do a full-time job and write in the evening and at weekends.

Sometimes you need to be shaken out of a situation.

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.

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.

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.

You feel undervalued when you write the kind of fiction I write.

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.

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.

Nick Hornby's a genius.