Joanna Trollope Quotes & Sayings
20 most famous Joanna Trollope quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She's an 81 year old British novelist born on Dec 9, 1943.
“You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.”
“I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.”
“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.”
“My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.”
“You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.”
“I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!”
“You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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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