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
marriage mostly test unexpected
Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles.
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My characters make incomprehensible decisions until you stand in their shoes. Then it makes more sense. Life is very rarely black and white, and most people are trying to do their best. I try not to judge.
hard unless
Unless you sell millions, I think it's very hard as a writer not to feel anxious about what you put out. I always feel I could do better.
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I write in all sorts of places; it's a legacy of my time as a journalist, where I could turn out copy in a hotel corridor. But I have a little office that I rent in my local town, and that's my ideal place.
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I think there is an awful lot of technology for technology's sake. I have yet to be convinced by my husband that persuading our mobiles to talk to our computers is going to be quicker and more straightforward than scribbling a note in our kitchen diary.
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.
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It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.
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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.
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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.
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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.