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
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My teens and 20s were spent lying on sheets of tinfoil in the weak English sun, covered in baby oil. In Greece and France I would burn, then turn a dark brown.
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Just as there are moments when the words flow and it feels like the easiest job in the world, there are many more when I think I have nothing to say, and my journalism training taught me that writing is a job, that you write whether you are inspired or not, and that the only way to unlock creativity is to write through it.
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I write in the mornings once the kids have gone to school, taking my laptop and a coffee to a little writer's room in town where I plant noise-cancelling headphones on my head and get to work.
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Melanoma is not the most common of skin cancers, but it is the most dangerous if not found in the early stages.
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I think perhaps we all cook to feed some kind of hunger in ourselves. I am nourished by being surrounded by family and friends, by creating something delicious for them, by nurturing them.
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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.
I no longer think you can live without passion.
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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.
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When you're working from home and you've got children, a big night out is going to Pizza Express down the road.
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I do know that I have always been one of life's observers, always standing slightly on the outside, watching.
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I consider myself pretty fearless, but the one thing I have always been frightened of is cancer.
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I am not someone who's very good at looking after herself, and I am also not someone who goes on holiday very often.
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For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers.
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Chick lit was amazing, and I was thrilled to be part of it.