60 Quotes by Rachel Johnson

I love writing journalism because it’s all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

I’d like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

It’s very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

I want ‘The Lady’ magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.

I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of 'Private Eye' and a latte.

'The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.