Joanna Trollope

I always love writing about children.

— Joanna Trollope

You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.

— Joanna Trollope

I am often criticised for being rather accessible.

— Joanna Trollope

You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!

— Joanna Trollope

I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.

— Joanna Trollope

“like an emotional tooth-ache, bearable much of the time but with a propensity to flare up without notice and cause agony.”

— Joanna Trollope

Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out…

— Joanna Trollope

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

— Joanna Trollope

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

— Joanna Trollope

“We’re so useful, we practical people. We hold it altogether. But we’re seen as killjoys, somehow. Most unfair.”

— Joanna Trollope

I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.

— Joanna Trollope

I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!

— Joanna Trollope

You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

— Joanna Trollope

I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but…

— Joanna Trollope

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both…

— Joanna Trollope

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and…

— Joanna Trollope

“a dog would be comfortably companionable and an uncomplicated distraction from the inside of his own head, and that one could safely…

— Joanna Trollope

All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful…

— Joanna Trollope

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more…

— Joanna Trollope

I don't need to marry again. I've been married twice, and I love it when it works, but these days we live…

— Joanna Trollope

I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from…

— Joanna Trollope

“She’s made up her mind about missing him, like she’s made up her mind about giving up her course. She won’t let…

— Joanna Trollope

“She trusted her instincts; she trusted those dear to her; she trusted her emotions and her passions. She drank deep, you could…

— Joanna Trollope

“You’re stuck with yourself, so you might as well try and be someone you can stand to live with.”

— Joanna Trollope

“The thing was, with parenting grown children, you had to learn to hold your tongue. If you wanted them to tell you…

— Joanna Trollope

“William got up and went over to the window. Outside, the autumn fields lay pleasingly striped with stubble and speckled with partridges.”

— Joanna Trollope

The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.

— Joanna Trollope

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a…

— Joanna Trollope

“We all overlay our feelings with too much thinking. We are afraid of our feelings because they are arbitrary and volatile, and…

— Joanna Trollope

I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a…

— Joanna Trollope

“Or was she going to be sensible, reliable, patient Elinor who never put her own feelings first because -- let's face it…

— Joanna Trollope

“She marched to the door and said, "if I ever marry, Patrick O'Sullivan, I shall make sure that my mate for life…

— Joanna Trollope

“Finding the home had been dispiriting at best. And the best had been only very occasional. She had been appalled, and alarmed,…

— Joanna Trollope

“Was it worth saying that she was no longer going to do anything for anyone since it seemed to her that the…

— Joanna Trollope