“We all overlay our feelings with too much thinking. We are afraid of our feelings because they are arbitrary and volatile, and we often need literature to make our feelings intelligible to us, to make us see that our reaction… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey. — Joanna Trollope Copy Share
“Finding the home had been dispiriting at best. And the best had been only very occasional. She had been appalled, and alarmed, by most… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share
My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share
You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that. — Joanna Trollope Copy Share
I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it! — Joanna Trollope Copy Share
“She trusted her instincts; she trusted those dear to her; she trusted her emotions and her passions. She drank deep, you could see that;… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share
All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share
I don't need to marry again. I've been married twice, and I love it when it works, but these days we live until we're… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share
“You’re stuck with yourself, so you might as well try and be someone you can stand to live with.” — Joanna Trollope Copy Share
“We all overlay our feelings with too much thinking. We are afraid of our feelings because they are arbitrary and volatile, and we often… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share
“a dog would be comfortably companionable and an uncomplicated distraction from the inside of his own head, and that one could safely say, out… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share
You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young! — Joanna Trollope Copy Share
You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books. — Joanna Trollope Copy Share
