Having struggled with food issues and eating disorders myself, particularly when I was younger, I've long been interested in using it within my books.

Jane Green

Categorized in : Myself Long Food Eating

My life is actually very boring. The life of a bestselling novelist sounds like it ought to be spectacularly glamorous and fun, but in fact I spend most of my time incognito, and in fact were you to pass me in the street you would think I was just another dowdy suburban mom.

mom fun thinking

Jules has always been one of those women that men go crazy about because she has enough self-confidence to say this is me, take it or leave it. And, invariably, they take it. Or at least try to. They love the fact that she doesn’t wear makeup. That her clothes, on her tiny, petite frame, are a mishmash of whatever she happens to pull out of the wardrobe that morning. That her laugh is huge and infectious, and, most of all, that she listens. She loves life, and people, and makes time for them, and even before Jamie came along men were forever falling in love with her.

falling-in-love crazy morning

I wish I could be hard and cynical. That I could take things slowly, not give too much of myself, because I'd be so frightened of getting hurt that there wouldn't be any other way. But no. every time I meet someone I dive in headfirst, showering them with love and attention, and hoping that this time they're going to be different.

cynical hurt giving

When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have left me. I am a naturalized American and my sensibility has become far more American.

sarcasm sarcastic writing

It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?

someone-you-love pain joy

Marriage should be about fun,” she says gently. “It’s about friendship, and laughter, and trust, and fun. If it’s not fun, if you take it all too seriously, what’s the point? You know I’ve been with Andy for fifteen years, and the reason it still works is because he’s my best friend and he still makes me laugh. Admittedly, not all the time, and often we get completely bogged down in work, and the kids, and life, but he’s still the person I most want to phone when anything happens in life, and he’s still the person who makes me laugh the most.

laughter fun kids

I think relationships are very difficult. It's very easy to get swept away with excitement, glamour, and passion. I think the trick is to look for friendship rather than passion.

passion looks thinking

And then there was him, the long and painful love of her life. by Jane Green

And then there was him, the long and painful love of her life.

painful-love painful long

It's about thinking that being blonde and slim and perfect will automatically bring you happiness, and then discovering that life is full of as many disappointments as there were before.

disappointment perfect thinking

Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience,... by Jane Green

Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.

time-and-love house home

What I want in a good beach read is sunshine, drama, easy-reading and transportation to another world and other people's problems.

good sunshine people world

I had just got married when I started writing my fourth novel. I'd come back from honeymoon, moved into our first house - a gorgeous little carriage house in London - and made my office on the third floor, overlooking the treetops in North West London.

back office house writing

For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers.

things me perfection beautiful

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.

i-am me love life

I believe it is the flaws that make us interesting, our backgroun... by Jane Green

I believe it is the flaws that make us interesting, our backgrounds, the hardships.

hardships i-believe flaws believe

I am not a big skier, but I love apres-ski wear and imagine I would look great in an all-white, fur-trimmed ski suit.

i-am great look love

I do know that I have always been one of life's observers, always standing slightly on the outside, watching.

know always standing life

When you're working from home and you've got children, a big night out is going to Pizza Express down the road.

you home night children

I spent the first summer after my diagnosis creeping about in giant sun hats and tents, cursing the sun, staying inside as much as possible. Now I am beginning to think the most important thing is educated sun exposure, because the melanomas of today are not caused by today's sunbathing, but by our childhoods and early adolescence.

i-am beginning sun today

I learned that saying you love your friends isn't enough: that love is a verb - it requires Acts of Love. It is all about the doing, not the saying, and now I make a point, every day, of emailing or phoning or making a plan with those I love.

day you love-is love