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
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The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.
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When I started writing, I thought the only way to write books that were set in the country was to go and look at the primroses on Putney Common.
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Everyone was in stitches at the Queen's speech. It was such a lovely, affectionate tribute
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We were the local cockneys, well I wasn't quite a cockney, but I was certainly enchanted by the contrast between city and village life.
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I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off.
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You've 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 they'll be there tomorrow, do you?
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If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural.
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I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home.
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The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.
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A lot of meetings are held to arrange when to have meetings. ... Meetings today are usually called conferences to make them sound more significant.
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Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.
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If you feel compelled to give a New Year's Eve party, don't invite people to arrive too early or they'll go off the boil before midnight.
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Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.
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Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.