You have a different, much more intimate relationship with the characters in a novel than when writing a screenplay. You're able to get inside their heads in a different way. You can understand their motivations more. — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
I always love stories that do a big time leap where the past informs the present, where you find out what became of some… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
When I re-read my diaries, it's the self-doubt that seems to be prevalent. — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
If you'd asked me when I was younger what life would be like in my 50s, I'd probably have imagined someone like my grandmother.… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
Certainly in 'Stella' there weren't really any baddies. And if there were, they were quite ineffectual baddies. And the same is true of 'Gavin… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
Writing a novel can be solitary at times compared to screenwriting, but I don't mind that. — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
I'd like to visit the Faroe Islands and at some point take a boat trip along the Caledonian Canal in Scotland. — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
With TV-writing, you write scenes and those scenes pretty much stay as they are when you come to filming them. Sometimes you might change… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
Since I turned 40, I've become less self-doubting, but it still happens. — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
I do my job because I love it. And a necessary part of the job is that you talk about the show you've done. — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
I have decided to stop dieting because it doesn't work for me and I am annoyed with myself for ever trying. I have decided… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
