Jilly Cooper
Jilly Cooper
Jilly Cooper OBEis an English author. She began her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975. She is most famous for writing the Rutshire Chronicles...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth21 February 1937
british-author family love simply whether
You've simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether they'll be there tomorrow, do you?
british-author crying fields number ought pleased riders saved sell
The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.
british-author weight
I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off.
tribute
Everyone was in stitches at the Queen's speech. It was such a lovely, affectionate tribute
marriage kindness women
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.
long-grass long grass
I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.
family-and-friends goes-on tomorrow
Youve simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether theyll be there tomorrow, do you?
running work reading
The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.
work should-have office
The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.
work office paper
Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.
work nice office
Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.
party want cocktails
Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.
home holiday way
I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home.
book writing people
People who can write a book usually do.