Sophie Kinsella Quotes - Page 8

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• I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Selfish, Shopping, Mind

  "My life in shopping". Interview with Sophie Kinsella, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2007.

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• My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Childhood, Heroines

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• I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Book, Pseudonyms, Firsts

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• I think a lot of people still fantasise about that first love and what might happen if they rekindled the relationship.

  Sophie Kinsella

  First Love, Thinking, People

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• I'm an impulse buyer. I don't really go out with a list.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Lists, Buyers, Impulse

  "My life in shopping". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2007.

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• When I'm on a break from writing, I'll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly being rung by deliverymen.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Writing, Ebay, Amazon

  "My life in shopping". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2007.

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• I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.

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  Children, Book, Writing

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• To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What Im writing is real.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Real, Mistake, Writing

  "Sophie Kinsella: 'You can be highly intelligent - and also ditzy and klutzy'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2012.

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• A divorce is like a controlled explosion. Everyone on the outside is OK.

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  Divorce, Explosions, Controlled

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• My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kinsella its fast, all-out comedies, such as the Shopaholic series.

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  Real, Drama, Writing

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• Visiting any shop for the first time is exciting. There's always that buzz as you push open the door; that hope; that belief - that this is going to be the shop of all shops, which will bring you everything you ever wanted, at magically low prices.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Doors, Buzz, Firsts

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “Shopaholic Abroad: (Shopaholic Book 2)”, p.162, Random House

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• ...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.

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  Heart, People, May

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• If it's in the bin, it's public property.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Property, Ifs

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• I mean, when I think about it, what's more important? Clothes - or the miracle of new life?

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  Mean, Thinking, Clothes

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• Christmas shopping! I can do all my Christmas shopping here! I know March is a bit early, but why not be organized? And then when Christmas arrives I won't have to go near the horrible Christmas crowds.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Shopping, Why Not, Crowds

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• I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.

  Sophie Kinsella

  College, Oxford, Gone

  "Big ideas". Interview With Alice Wignall, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2004.

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• I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Stars, Work Out, Pops

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