Sophie Kinsella Quotes

I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when I'm asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cause that's what I feel they are. But I'm quite pragmatic.

Sophie Kinsella

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 12, 1969

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I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person.

Joanna Trollope

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I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.

Jo Brand

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I'm looking for someone who works as hard as I do. Who loves their work as much as I do, so at the end of the night we have something real to talk about, something exciting that makes our blood flow and boil.

Jill Scott

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I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.

Michael Douglas

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Close friends, or those in my pay, sometimes call me a literary polymath, while others say that I'm just a shallow dilettante, superficial and breezy, with a faux-naif style.

Michael Dirda

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The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers.

John Shelton Reed

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My name is Steven Crowder, and I happen to find blatant gayness funny. I mean really funny.

Steven Crowder

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Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness.

Tom Sizemore

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For me, writing a historical novel was really hard. I love history as a subject and majored in it in college. I think, in a way, my training made it worse for me because I knew how important it was to focus on document-based analysis, and I really didn't want to get stuff wrong.

Min Jin Lee

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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words.

Joseph Butler

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I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

Conor Oberst

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