Lisa Jewell

“is a work”

— Lisa Jewell

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

— Lisa Jewell

Nick Hornby's a genius.

— Lisa Jewell

Writing a book is not easy.

— Lisa Jewell

“May was like the Friday night of summer:”

— Lisa Jewell

My husband loves having his own room.

— Lisa Jewell

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

— Lisa Jewell

For me, the optimum circumstances for writing a book are those of stultifying routine.

— Lisa Jewell

My mother had breast cancer when she was 39.

— Lisa Jewell

“Her mother existed entirely in the moment. And she made every moment sparkle.”

— Lisa Jewell

My mother died in 2005. She was 61 years old.

— Lisa Jewell

Sometimes you need to be shaken out of a situation.

— Lisa Jewell

That's always the way in life: the longer you leave things, the harder they are to do.

— Lisa Jewell

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

— Lisa Jewell

I like the fact that my husband and I have been together for a long time and have a warm and colourful…

— Lisa Jewell

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

— Lisa Jewell

Agents and publishers are always looking for something 'different,' a fresh viewpoint and a new voice, not just re-hashed versions of stuff…

— 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

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

— 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

I would never, for the sake of the story or a twist, have a character do something that they just wouldn't do.…

— 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

People with big ideas worry. They lie awake at night and fret as they try to climb up the social or financial…

— Lisa Jewell

I loved her more than she loved me, that was the problem. A basic imbalance. Relationships like that never last, however hard…

— Lisa Jewell

“She remembered the intensity of her desire to undress him, to be naked with him, the way she felt like she could…

— 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

It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on…

— Lisa Jewell

I was brought up in the same house I was born in, and I lived there until I left home as an…

— Lisa Jewell

Friends can be a pain. They can be demanding and hard work. But maybe that's because they're the wrong friends. I read…

— 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

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

— Lisa Jewell

If you have a calling, you need to let it find you.

— Lisa Jewell

No man ever fell in love with me for the way I fill out a Lycra dress.

— Lisa Jewell

Freedom came in strange forms and from unexpected directions.

— Lisa Jewell

Everyone thinks they've got a book inside them.

— Lisa Jewell

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

— Lisa Jewell

I always wanted to write psychological thrillers.

— Lisa Jewell

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

— Lisa Jewell

I married someone I didn't love. I was too polite to say no.

— Lisa Jewell

My parents' marriage was, on an aesthetic level, very pleasing to behold.

— Lisa Jewell