Jilly Cooper
Jilly Cooper
Jilly Cooper OBEis an English author. She began her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975. She is most famous for writing the Rutshire Chronicles...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth21 February 1937
book writing firefighter
I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.
simple secret half
I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
home soup cabbage
At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.
book london bigs
I'd never have written the big books in London.
book writing thinking
But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.
work should-have office
The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.
england praying workshops
There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.
eye blow dust
The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes.
class feet good-man
The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.
men thinking cooks
I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.
beautiful clever men
For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.
home want clock
I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.
family-and-friends goes-on tomorrow
Youve simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether theyll be there tomorrow, do you?
long-grass long grass
I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.