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
jobs men thinking
I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right job, or the right background, and, instead of sitting back and waiting for him to reveal his other bits, I make them up. I decide how he thinks, how he's going to treat me, and, sure enough, every time I conclude that this time he's definitely my perfect man, and all of a sudden, well, not so suddenly perhaps, usually around six months after we've split up, I see that he wasn't the person I thought he was at all.
girl independent insecure
When I'm single, I'm this fabulous, independent, confident woman, and then I get involved with one disastrous man after another and I turn into this needy, insecure, fearful girl who becomes frightened of her own shadow.
together pieces world
Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.
waiting abuse domestic-violence
... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.
job time
When I was a student, I had a part time job as a barmaid at a dodgy pub in Kent.
article few needed treated
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.
I no longer think you can live without passion.
assume fascinated meet similar
I have long been fascinated by our inclination to assume others we meet have the same moral code, similar values, and yet we can never be sure.
express home pizza
When you're working from home and you've got children, a big night out is going to Pizza Express down the road.
life slightly standing
I do know that I have always been one of life's observers, always standing slightly on the outside, watching.
frightened
I consider myself pretty fearless, but the one thing I have always been frightened of is cancer.
goes good holiday looking
I am not someone who's very good at looking after herself, and I am also not someone who goes on holiday very often.
great love ski wear
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.
decorating eclectic means styles
For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers.