For me, the optimum circumstances for writing a book are those of stultifying routine. — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
Every brilliant book I read is an influence and an inspiration. As is every brilliant movie I watch and every brilliant box… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
There's a weird contrast between my usual daily routine and then my book coming out. It's like someone's just suddenly opened the… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
Every time I've written a book, I'm like, 'Oh, it's so different from the last one. Are they going to like it?' — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
There are people out there who would enjoy my books but wouldn't pick them up because they think it's not going to… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
If you can start and finish a book, then you're already a million miles ahead of all those people who talk about… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
When I travel, I can leave everything at home apart from books. I curate my holiday reading rigorously and would be devastated… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
For a very long time, I thought everyone I met through the process of getting an agent and a publishing deal had… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
Publishers have published women's fiction into a corner, and now we are all trying to punch our way out of it. We… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
People say 'chick lit,' and what they mean is 'crap.' And so even though you might sell 100,000 copies of a book,… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
That whole idea of chick lit being a thing that you just lump all the commercial female writers into - it went… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
Ever since 'Single White Female,' the 1990 novel which was turned into a supremely scary film, the idea of a seemingly normal… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
“All books are good,’ he said. ‘That’s not true,’ I said. ‘I’ve read some really bad books.’ I was thinking specifically of… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
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… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share
I loved her more than she loved me, that was the problem. A basic imbalance. Relationships like that never last, however hard you try.… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share
I knew I wasn't the sort of person who could do a full-time job and write in the evening and at weekends. — Lisa Jewell Copy Share
I must always, always have a box of Extra chewing gum in my bag because I have developed a terrible cheek-chewing compulsion. It's not… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share
I am a terrible, terrible typist. I could not have been a writer in the age of typewriters. — Lisa Jewell Copy Share
I would never, for the sake of the story or a twist, have a character do something that they just wouldn't do. I really… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share
My publishers find me really challenging, as a lot of the time, I don't even know what I'm going to be writing about until… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share
If you feel that your father was lacking as a husband, it affects your own choice of man. — Lisa Jewell Copy Share
“You're here every night, you join in, but you always seem to be - I don't know - more of a spectator than a… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share
When I travel, I can leave everything at home apart from books. I curate my holiday reading rigorously and would be devastated if I… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share
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… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share
