Book Quote by Lisa Jewell Download Open image “I don't think my first book was chick lit.” — Lisa Jewell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Chick First Lit Think
I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
One reviewer dubbed my first book, 'Getting Rid of Matthew,' 'chick noir,' and another called it 'anti chick lit,' both of which I loved. — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
What I find weird is that the term 'chick lit' is used to encompass literally anything a woman writes about relationships. It's the assumption… — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
“My work has often been described as “chick lit” and for the most part the term doesn’t bother me. I think it simply signals… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
My first book was a historical novel. I started writing in 1974. In those days, historical novels meant ladies with swelling bosoms on the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The first book was a life story that I was hesitant to write anyway because I didn't feel like I had a real life… — Bobby Bones Copy Share Image
I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
It's funny, we started writing chick-lit when it was just becoming a crowded marketplace, and now the same thing is happening with YA. It… — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I changed my mind about being a famous pop star when I realised that it meant I'd never be able to get on the… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
I loved her more than she loved me, that was the problem. A basic imbalance. Relationships like that never last, however hard you try.… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
I knew I wasn't the sort of person who could do a full-time job and write in the evening and at weekends. — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
I must always, always have a box of Extra chewing gum in my bag because I have developed a terrible cheek-chewing compulsion. It's not… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
I am a terrible, terrible typist. I could not have been a writer in the age of typewriters. — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
I would never, for the sake of the story or a twist, have a character do something that they just wouldn't do. I really… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
My publishers find me really challenging, as a lot of the time, I don't even know what I'm going to be writing about until… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
If you feel that your father was lacking as a husband, it affects your own choice of man. — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
“You're here every night, you join in, but you always seem to be - I don't know - more of a spectator than a… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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