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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a book is not easy.
- Box
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every brilliant book I read is an influence and an inspiration. As is every brilliant movie I watch and every brilliant box set.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 only uncomfortable, but I look really weird when I'm doing it, and chewing gum is the only way I can stop myself.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I travel, I can leave everything at home apart from books. I curate my holiday reading rigorously and would be devastated if I found I'd left one at home.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a little girl, I was a real, drippy bookworm. But when I went into fashion, I stopped reading.
- Full-Time Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I wasn't the sort of person who could do a full-time job and write in the evening and at weekends.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes you need to be shaken out of a situation.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I watch any kind of competition, my immediate reaction when they call out the name of the winner is to look at the loser.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 Tube again.
- Strange
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- Nov 07, 2020
A strange side effect of sudden success is the sense that if you can succeed in one field, then it might well be worth trying to succeed in another.
- Copies
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say 'chick lit,' and what they mean is 'crap.' And so even though you might sell 100,000 copies of a book, you're never going to win a prize. These are books that people don't just read, they devour them - they stay up into the early hours because they want to devour them.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was made redundant from a job as a PA in a shirt-making company in 1996. I was devastated. I had been there for three years, and it was a job I really liked.
- Nick
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nick Hornby's a genius.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to write about my first marriage in a fictional version but got two pages into it and realised it was too personal. Then I came up with an old-fashioned love triangle, which became the plot for 'Ralph's Party.'
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and again The Story of Her Childhood. It was Grimmsian, Andersenesque: a classic fairy tale replete with goodies and baddies.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was born on February 8, 1944, in Lucknow, India. Her father, Albert, was half-Indian and half-Portuguese.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020