Jane Green

“That's the problem with lying. You can never remember what you've said.”

“I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I'm not terribly interested, and I don't have the patience for it.”

“Sadly, I don't think books ever sell based on your name alone - the minute we make an assumption like that is the minute it all goes horribly wrong!”

“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.”

“People show you who they are, not by what they say, but by what they do.”

“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.”

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

“I read so much about men who aren't what they seem, and particularly stories written by women who found out their husbands had a slew of secrets they knew nothing about.”

“Every time my dreams threaten to become reality, something always happens and I end up alone.”

“Ten years ago, you wrote a book and you never expected to find out anything about the author. Now with social media, everyone wants that connection. I think our readers want to be invited into our lives and brought on the journey and be part of this whole process.”

“Forever feels a long time when you're eighteen. When you're away from home for the first time in your life, when you forge instant friendships that are so strong they are destined, surely, to be with you until the bitter end.”

“My favorite part of speaking at events has never been the speaking, but the reading of my books.”

“I have spent many a night in an Internet chat room, but not since I've been married.”

“Bad things always happen in three.”

“I believed our touching to be more intense because of it's very holding back. Belief is always a choice.”

“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.”

“I was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel.”

“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.”

“The fact is that blaming doesn't get you anywhere. It keeps you stuck. Blaming stops you from moving on with your life.”

“You discover something so awful, so life-changing, the only way you can cope is to jump straight into denial.”