Jojo Moyes
Jojo Moyes
Jojo Moyesis an English journalist and, since 2002, a romance novelist. She is one of only a few authors to have twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association and has been translated into eleven different languages...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 August 1969
america card given guild invited proudest script whenever writers
My Writers Guild of America card is one of my proudest possessions. I was given it after being invited to write the script for a film of my last novel, 'Me Before You,' which is being made by MGM. Whenever I look at it, I think, 'I'm a Hollywood writer!'
books cliched gritty paint umbrella walls
I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I've wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.
alive fiction staggering women
Chick-lit may be staggering on its heels, but women's fiction is alive and kicking.
morning want sometimes
Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.
morning hangover drunk
Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it's just because you're still a bit drunk. That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
mean printing-money complicated
It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
laughing kind conspiracy
She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn't be laughing. The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
sister fighting like-you
Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
love-you thinking littles
I know this isn’t a conventional love story. I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.
believe suffering forgiving
I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
girl men please
Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
real years two
Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you'd left off, whether it be a week since you'd seen each other or two years.
sleep night brightness
I see all this talent, all this...this energy and brightness and...potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life. This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.
jobs two make-me-happy
I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen