Jane Green
Jane Green
Jane Green Warburg, is an Internationally bestselling author, and one of the world's leading authors in commercial women's fiction, with millions of books in print and translations in over twenty five languages. Together with Helen Fielding she is considered a founder of the genre known as chick lit...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 May 1968
home tend
I have a gorgeous office at home but tend not to write there because there are so many distractions.
attitudes changed close death friendship illness
Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.
business house love solitary
I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.
addicted chat rooms since spent
I have spent many a night in an Internet chat room, but not since I've been married. I don't do the chat rooms anymore, but I have become completely addicted to Ebay.
adore interested promises supposed terrible
I adore children, but I was never that interested in new born babies. It's a terrible thing to have to admit, and you're not supposed to think that way as a woman, but everyone promises it's different when you have your own. It wasn't for me, though.
lazy life love somewhat
I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know they love me, but I didn't make much of an effort.
As a teenager, you are still entirely wrapped up in yourself.
decorating eclectic means styles
For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers.
frightened
I consider myself pretty fearless, but the one thing I have always been frightened of is cancer.
life slightly standing
I do know that I have always been one of life's observers, always standing slightly on the outside, watching.
express home pizza
When you're working from home and you've got children, a big night out is going to Pizza Express down the road.
assume fascinated meet similar
I have long been fascinated by our inclination to assume others we meet have the same moral code, similar values, and yet we can never be sure.
article few needed treated
I treated the first few books as a very long journalistic exercise. I thought of every chapter as an article that needed to be finished.
waiting abuse domestic-violence
... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.