Writer Quotes by Lisa Jewell

“is a work”

— Lisa Jewell

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

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

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

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

I am a terrible, terrible typist. I could not have been a writer in the age of typewriters.

— Lisa Jewell

I don't think my first book was chick lit.

— Lisa Jewell

My husband loves having his own room.

— Lisa Jewell

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

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

If you feel that your father was lacking as a husband, it affects your own choice of man.

— Lisa Jewell

Everyone thinks they've got a book inside them.

— Lisa Jewell

“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

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

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