Latest Helen Fielding Quotes from Interviews

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• In terms of myself, my next big plan is to loose 7llb (as I've been planning to do since I was seventeen) Also to go to the gym three times a week, not merely to buy a sandwich. And also de-clutter the garage.

  Helen Fielding

  Three, Sandwiches, Next

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview with Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 07, 2016.

• 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.

  Helen Fielding

  Important, Stories, Way

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• In terms of Bridget [Jones] I honestly don't know. One thing I can say for sure is that all of these stories have been an honest, instinctive expression of something I felt or observed at the time. I would never cynically think "Oh that would sell well next."

  Helen Fielding

  Thinking, Expression, Stories

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• As Bridget writes to her son, in Bridget Jones' Baby - "if you just keep calm and keep your spirits up, things have a habit of turning out all right, just as they did for me."

  Helen Fielding

  Baby, Writing, Son

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview with Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 07, 2016.

• When Bridget [Jones] does finally get pregnant, she 's bound to mess it up, but what I tried to show is the importance of love and kindness rather than perfection, and the importance of support from friends who help you to laugh at your mistakes and pick yourself up afterwards.

  Helen Fielding

  Kindness, Mistake, Laughing

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• Bridget Jones' Baby, at heart is about the gap between how you expect life to turn out and how it actually does.

  Helen Fielding

  Baby, Heart, Doe

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview with Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 07, 2016.

• In terms of parenthood, I think the pressure has amped up massively too. Some parents are setting the bar ludicrously high in terms of doing things "right," and seeing children more as products to be perfected than simply children.

  Helen Fielding

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview With Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 7, 2016.

• On social media people tend to show off, and post their most attractive picture, and moments that are most likely to give everyone else FOMO (Fear of Missing out). They rarely share the moments when they feel down, or when things have gone wrong and they need support.

  Helen Fielding

  Media, People, Giving

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview With Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 7, 2016.

• Bridget [Jones] was always, at heart, about the gap between how you feel you're expected to be and how you actually are and that gap has only widened. Young people now are entering an uncharted sea, where there's huge pressure to judge yourself on how many Likes or Followers you get on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, rather than the on important things like being kind, honest, resilient, funny and a good friend.

  Helen Fielding

  Heart, Good Friend, Sea

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• I think the pressure to be perfect generally in life has amped up massively in the last twenty years: especially for young people with the advent of social media.

  Helen Fielding

  Thinking, Media, Years

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview With Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 7, 2016.

• Though with Bridget Jones's Baby: the Diaries, I'd like to make it clear that I did not ever get pregnant by two men.

  Helen Fielding

  Baby, Men, Two

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview with Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 7, 2016.

• 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.

  Helen Fielding

  Ties, Diaries, Might

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• 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.

  Helen Fielding

  Book, Littles, Events

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• I had my daughter by C-section, so knew when and where she was going to be born. I got freakishly organized and prepared a group e-mail birth announcement. Unfortunately, I accidentally pressed Send All. I then had to send another e-mail saying, "I'm really sorry but I haven't actually had the baby yet." Then, when I actually did have the baby, I felt too embarrassed to send another e-mail saying, "I've definitely had the baby now."

  Helen Fielding

  Daughter, Baby, Sorry

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview With Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 7, 2016.

• With so many dark things to worry about in the world right now, I hope people will just go with the fun and enjoy [ Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].

  Helen Fielding

  Baby, Fun, Dark

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview with Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 7, 2016.

• 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.

  Helen Fielding

  Book, Battle, Diaries

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview With Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 7, 2016.

• 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].

  Helen Fielding

  Baby, Writing, Long

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview with Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 7, 2016.

• More than two years after Mad About the Boy was published, the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries ] movie started coming together. I felt better about the material, and found myself writing a letter from Bridget to her son: explaining the original story of how he came to be, from his own Mum.

  Helen Fielding

  Baby, Writing, Son

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• 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.

  Helen Fielding

  Baby, Writing, Confusion

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview With Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 7, 2016.

• That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized I was writing in Bridget's voice and it grew from there into a Bridget novel.

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  Writing, Boys, Ideas

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• I'd been working on the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries material] for years, first, in the Independent newspaper columns and then in the various versions of the movie scripts.

  Helen Fielding

  Baby, Independent, Years

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• For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.

  Helen Fielding

  Writing, Design, Stories

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