Joanna Trollope
Joanna Trollope
Joanna Trollope OBEis a British writer. She also wrote under the pseudonym of Caroline Harvey. Her novel Parson Harding's Daughter won in 1980 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 December 1943
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All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the readers that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me.
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I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.
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You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!
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Two things: a lifelong fascination dating from reading fairy stories as a child with stepmothers, why are they always supposed to be "wicked"?
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It's not so much hearth as family life which is where we all, I'm sure, learn (or fail to learn!) all our life skills for the future.
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I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person.
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I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!
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I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.
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I don't need to marry again. I've been married twice, and I love it when it works, but these days we live until we're 80 and marriages are jolly long.
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I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.
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Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.
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I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!
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Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
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You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.