““The basis of my own addiction, I know, is my simple human need for Darcy to get off with Elizabeth. Tom says football guru Nick Hornby says in his book that men's obsession with football is not vicarious. The testosterone-crazed fans do not wish themselves on the pitch, claims Hornby, instead seeing their team as their chosen representatives, rather like parliament. That is precisely my feeling about Darcy and Elizabeth. They are my chosen representatives in the field of shagging, or, rather, courtship. I do not, however, wish to see any actual goals. I would hate to see Darcy and Elizabeth in bed, smoking a cigarette afterwards. That would be unnatural and wrong and I would quickly lose interest.””
![“I'd always hoped to write the story as a novel, but there was a long period when the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries] movie was stalled and in confusion. I felt frustrated creatively, and just couldn't work on the Baby material till the movie was sorted out.” quote by Helen Fielding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/406/helen-fielding-2564_baby_i-d-always-hoped-to-write-the-story-as-a_112832.jpg)
![“With most of the events in the books [ Bridget Jones Diaries ] I draw a little bit from my own life and some from what I see happening around me.” quote by Helen Fielding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f14/helen-fielding-2564_bits_with-most-of-the-events-in-the-books-bri_149061.jpg)
![“Of course the chronology of the books is a bit back- to - front, and books usually come out before movies. But happily, these [Bridget Jones's] are fictional comedy diaries - not a history of the Battle of Waterloo.” quote by Helen Fielding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b8f/helen-fielding-2564_battle_of-course-the-chronology-of-the-books-is_204283.jpg)
![“If the stories don't come from the inside out, then Bridget [Jones] is not being true to herself and it's very important to me that she stays that way.” quote by Helen Fielding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/46f/helen-fielding-2564_being-true_if-the-stories-don-t-come-from-the-insid_461740.jpg)
![“I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little novel [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].” quote by Helen Fielding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa8/helen-fielding-2564_baby_i-got-into-my-usual-obsessive-writing-fr_750798.jpg)
![“I tend to take [ to Bridget Jones Diaries] something that nearly happened, or might have happened, and then exaggerate it to make it funny and to make it tie into the themes.” quote by Helen Fielding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/832/helen-fielding-2564_bridget-jones_i-tend-to-take-to-bridget-jones-diaries_766640.jpg)