Joanna Trollope Quotes

• The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.

  Joanna Trollope

  Love, Children, Men

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• My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

  Joanna Trollope

  Growing Up, Writing, Advice

  Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. June 02, 2012.

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• You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

  Joanna Trollope

  People, Change Yourself, Situation

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• You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

  Joanna Trollope

  Book, Library, Rooms

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• I'm no lyrical stylist, you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

  Joanna Trollope

  Perfect, Intellectual, Stylist

  "Survival tactics". Interview with Lisa Allardice, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.

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• Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.

  Joanna Trollope

  Book, Going Out, World

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• I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!

  Joanna Trollope

  Kindness, Home, Appreciate

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• You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.

  Joanna Trollope

  Character, Helping

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• Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

  Joanna Trollope

  Names, Differences, Perception

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• I always love writing about children.

  Joanna Trollope

  Children, Writing

  "Paperback Q&A: Joanna Trollope on Daughters-in-Law". www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2012.

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• I am often criticised for being rather accessible.

  Joanna Trollope

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• I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.

  Joanna Trollope

  Girl, Men, Cupcakes

  Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. June 02, 2012.

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• My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.

  Joanna Trollope

  Character, Views, Voice

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• I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.

  Joanna Trollope

  Writing, Way, Orderly

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