Don't do a hard sell or try to tell the agent that you're going to be a bestseller or the next John Grisham. This goes down very badly. If your work is good, then they are skilled enough to know… — 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
