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 husband has a cousin who discovered, in his fifties, that the man he thought was his father was actually not, and that he had not only a father he had never met, but brothers.
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My favorite part of speaking at events has never been the speaking, but the reading of my books.
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When I was a student, I had a part time job as a barmaid at a dodgy pub in Kent.
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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 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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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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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 was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel.
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I have learned that it is imperative that I make time for my friends, that they demand to be as much a part of the mix as my family and my work, and perhaps more so, because they are not an inevitability.
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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.
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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.
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I always thought I'd be the quintessential Earth Mother, but when I had Harrison, I really wasn't the natural mother that I always thought I would be. I adore children, but I was never that interested in newborn babies.
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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.