Helen Fielding Quotes

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• Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the…
• The corruption of the good by the belief in their own infallible goodnes is the most bloody dangerous pitfall in the human spectrum. Once you…
• I will not Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week.
• Exes should never, never go out with or marry other people but should remain celibate to the end of their days in order to provide…
• I am brave, though I am alone.
• It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And…
• Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.
• I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.
• It is horrid to smirk.
• My books have all generated controversy.
• Nobody wants to be racist and I think that most people aren't.
• Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.
• I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be…
• I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked…
• I like L.A. It's like a mini break. For a writer, it's hilarious. Like the food. Where I come from, we eat chip sandwiches: white…
• I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how…
• I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this…
• If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far…
• The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts…
• There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this…

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