JoJo
JoJo
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth20 December 1990
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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I wrote three books before I got one published. Most writers do. Have faith, and know that with each work you are getting better.
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Red had gotten me out of my two-year obligation. He?d gotten me into the reserves. I was gone for six months and was back with the team.
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Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.
characters
If the characters are compelling, readers will follow anywhere.
family life
I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story.
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I always imagined a writer was someone who lived in an attic in Paris, but my mum instilled in me a belief that I could do anything - so I ended up writing my first novel while working nights as a news reporter.
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My writing life has included the struggle to bring up three children. What I do three or four times a year is take myself off to a hotel room to unblock a problem.
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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!'
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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.
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In the early part of 2005, people were talking about the Philippines being the next Argentina. People aren't talking about that scenario anymore.
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In our view, if the state of emergency is short-lived, then it should not have a measurable impact on economic activity and thus preserve the gains from the fiscal reform effort, which is the cornerstone of the positive view toward the Philippines.
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Chick-lit may be staggering on its heels, but women's fiction is alive and kicking.
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Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.