British - Author | February 19, 1958 -
I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.
Helen Fielding
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The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.
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I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.
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My books have all generated controversy.
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Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.
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It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.
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