Jojo Moyes
Jojo Moyes
Jojo Moyesis an English journalist and, since 2002, a romance novelist. She is one of only a few authors to have twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association and has been translated into eleven different languages...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 August 1969
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I think there is an awful lot of technology for technology's sake. I have yet to be convinced by my husband that persuading our mobiles to talk to our computers is going to be quicker and more straightforward than scribbling a note in our kitchen diary.
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I write in all sorts of places; it's a legacy of my time as a journalist, where I could turn out copy in a hotel corridor. But I have a little office that I rent in my local town, and that's my ideal place.
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I wrote three books before I got one published. Most writers do. Have faith, and know that with each work you are getting better.
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My writing life has included the struggle to bring up three children. What I do three or four times a year is take myself off to a hotel room to unblock a problem.
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Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles.
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Unless you sell millions, I think it's very hard as a writer not to feel anxious about what you put out. I always feel I could do better.
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What love is depends on where you are in relation to it. Secure in it, it can feel as mundane and necessary as air - you exist within it, almost unnoticing. Deprived of it, it can feel like an obsession; all consuming - a physical pain.
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I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.
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If the characters are compelling, readers will follow anywhere.
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I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story.
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I always imagined a writer was someone who lived in an attic in Paris, but my mum instilled in me a belief that I could do anything - so I ended up writing my first novel while working nights as a news reporter.
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If chick-lit really is taking a commercial battering, I'd suggest it's because the marketing has been done to death. Covering everything in girlie pink and putting chocolate in the title may once have been a clever Pavlovian device but now makes readers feel a bit sick.
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You have to write the story that's at the front of your head. There is no point in trying to write for the market; it won't ring true.
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We seem to live in an age where we are quietly appalled by the idea of appetites, whether they be for sex, food or diamonds.