Helen Fielding
Helen Fielding
Helen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, and a sequence of novels and films beginning with the life of a thirtysomething singleton in London trying to make sense of life and love...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth19 February 1958
alone car caught decided dying ends exploring flat found girls good haunted horrible identity image independence later life lots married matter needed normal paralyzed perfectly single somewhere subject three tragic weeks woman
I think it is a kind of subject matter that needed exploring ... the identity of the single woman had not caught up with what was happening. Which was that a lot of perfectly attractive, intelligent, nice, normal girls in their 30s had decided not to get married for very good reasons. And they were paralyzed somewhere between the Cosmo girls, you know with the good life and their own flat and car and independence and lots of fun, and haunted by this horrible image of ... the tragic spinster who ends up dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by a dog.
books rejected time
I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.
pride loss reflection
Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss
parent freak single-women
Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.
smirk
It is horrid to smirk.
sight tears needs
One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time apart', 'serious talk' or 'maybe you...' and you're never going to see them again and will have to spend the next six months having imaginary conversations in which they beg to come back, and bursting into tears at the sight of their toothbrush.
thinking-about-you thinking like-you
No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.
how-you-feel be-good feels
You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.
valentine cynical matter
Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.
brave
I am brave, though I am alone.