Lisa Jewell

There's a weird contrast between my usual daily routine and then my book coming out. It's like someone's just suddenly opened the…

— Lisa Jewell

When I was a little girl, I was a real, drippy bookworm. But when I went into fashion, I stopped reading.

— Lisa Jewell

The older I get, the more I love psychological thrillers.

— Lisa Jewell

“Maybe it was too much of a coincidence to be a purely coincidence.”

— Lisa Jewell

I take the six weeks of the school summer holidays off because I'm pretty sure I'm not going to look back on…

— Lisa Jewell

“There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny, it wasn't neat and manageable. It was random and scary and if it…

— Lisa Jewell

Every brilliant book I read is an influence and an inspiration. As is every brilliant movie I watch and every brilliant box…

— Lisa Jewell

Nick Hornby's a genius.

— Lisa Jewell

Sometimes you need to be shaken out of a situation.

— Lisa Jewell

“Not that I’m a fan of Valentine’s, really. I always thought that every day should be Valentine’s. Well, POTENTIALLY Valentine’s at least,…

— Lisa Jewell

I think that not being proactive is a good thing. I like life to unfold on its own.

— Lisa Jewell

If one of my romantic-comedy colleagues had written and directed 'Love Actually,' they would have been torn limb from limb. I thought…

— Lisa Jewell

My father, Anthony, was a textile agent who sold fabric in the West End and was away a lot. He was very…

— Lisa Jewell

Every time I've written a book, I'm like, 'Oh, it's so different from the last one. Are they going to like it?'

— Lisa Jewell

“But maybe I’ll end up doing something else unconventional. Who knows. And I really hope that if I do, and as long…

— Lisa Jewell

“All books are good,’ he said. ‘That’s not true,’ I said. ‘I’ve read some really bad books.’ I was thinking specifically of…

— Lisa Jewell

Flowers would be wasted on me. I don't like valentines. I don't need gifts. I'm a pragmatic romantic.

— Lisa Jewell

The only way you can write about a happy family in a drama is to make them unhappy.

— Lisa Jewell

They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that.

— Lisa Jewell

“May was like the Friday night of summer:”

— Lisa Jewell

All my main characters have got bits of me, bits of my family, bits of my friends.

— Lisa Jewell

“The human memory is such a cruel, frustrating thing, the way it just discards things without asking permission, precious things.”

— Lisa Jewell

I never had one of those glorious young bodies that make older men and women weep. So I don't tend to look…

— Lisa Jewell

My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and…

— Lisa Jewell

You feel undervalued when you write the kind of fiction I write.

— Lisa Jewell