Joanna Trollope Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.”

“My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.”

“I always love writing about children.”

“I am often criticised for being rather accessible.”

“I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.”

“I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.”

“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.”

“You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!”

“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.”

“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.”