Sophie Kinsella famous quotes

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Determination #Business #Luck

If I've learned one lesson from all that's happened to me, it's that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Mistake #Lessons

I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Fashion #Clothes #Everyday

It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Crush #Talking #People

Look into your heart- and go after what you really want.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Heart #Want #Looks

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Life #Jobs #Giving Up

Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are?
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Cheating #Matter #Doe

Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Bills #Birth #Blur

It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Way #Looks #Might

The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Bullshit #Giving #Trouble

People who want to make a million borrow a million first
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Inspirational #Money #People

For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead of wheat, maize, barley, and fallow, mine pretty much goes clothes, makeup shoes, and clothes (I don't bother with fallow). Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Makeup #Years #Shoes

Honestly, shopping beats therapy, anytime. It costs the same and you get a dress out of it.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Shopping #Cost #Dresses

We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Air #Light #Appreciate

The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That’s the way life is.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Forever #Way #Lasts

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Motivational #Ends

She believes in love and romance. She believes her life is one day going to be transformed into something wonderful and exciting. She has hopes and fears and worries, just like anyone. Sometimes she feels frightened. Sometimes she feels unloved. Sometimes she feels she will never gain approval from those people who are most important to her. But she’s brave and good-hearted and faces her life head-on.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Believe #Worry #People

My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Changed #Life Has Changed

A real relationship is two-way.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Real #Two #Way

This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Secret #Use

It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Girl #Stupid #Believe

I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Thinking #Floating #Pieces

You panicked". Venetia's voice is suddenly throbbing, as though she can't control a long-buried anger. "You panicked, Luke, and we lost the best relationship that we had. Everyone was jealous of us at Cambridge, everyone. We were perfect together." We weren't perfect!" He looks at her incredulously. "And I didn't panic---" You did! You couldn't cope with the commitment! It frightened you!" It did not frighten me!" Luke shouts, exasperated. "It made me realize you weren't the person I wanted to have children with. Or spend the rest of my life with. Ever. And that's why I ended it!
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Children #Commitment #Jealous

It's a GIRL. It's a little girl, with scrunched-up petal lips and a tuft of dark hair and hands in tiny fits, up by her ears. All that time, that's who was in there. And it's weird, but the minute I saw her I just thought: IT'S YOU. Of course it is.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Girl #Dark #Hair

There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Resilient #Turns

Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you just said, like in a courtroom.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Life #People #Would Be

Hi." "Hi." I shrug, as though to say "Whatever." In my peripheral vision I can see Magnus exhale. He looks a teeny bit nervous. "So." "So." I can play this game too. "Poppy." "Poppy. I mean, Magnus." I scowl. He caught me out.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Mean #Games #Play

I’m blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Stupid #Way #Nonsensical

Our whole family thrives under pressure. It's like our family motto or something. Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous break down. But the rest of us.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Brother #Pressure #Nervous

That's the way it goes. Some things happen and some things don't. This one is obviously just wasn't meant to be. Except deep down... I still believe it was.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Believe #Way #Stills

Great. Just great. One glimpse of his body and I have a full-blown crush. I honestly thought I was a bit deeper than that.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Crush #Body #Glimpse

Whoever it was, whether I knew them or not, if I could help in some way, I would. I mean, if you can help, you have to help. Don't you think? - Poppy Wyatt
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Mean #Thinking #Way

... what would Poirot do? Poirot wouldn't flap around in a panic. He'd stay calm and use his little grey cells and recall some tiny, vital detail which would be the clue to everything.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Cells #Stay Calm #Would Be

Visiting any shop for the first time is exciting. There's always that buzz as you push open the door; that hope; that belief - that this is going to be the shop of all shops, which will bring you everything you ever wanted, at magically low prices.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Doors #Buzz #Firsts

Just because of that one disastrous blind date she had last year, where the guy turned out to be fifty-nine, not thirty-nine (He claimed it was a typo. Yeah, I’m sure his finger just happened to slip two spaces to the left).
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Years #Two #Space

I'm lying. I don't just need someone like you. I need you.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Lying #Needs #Like You

Everyone keeps saying I’ll pick it up. But what if I don’t? I did algebra for three years, and I never picked that up.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Years #What If #Three

Mind your own Brazilian!" The words fly out of my mouth before I can stop them. Oops. OK. The trick when you've said something embarrassing by mistake is to pretend nothing happened.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Mistake #Mind #Mouths

I can't get over this. Dad isn't Sam's dad? Dad is a friend? How was I supposed to know that? People shouldn't be allowed to sign themselves as Dad unless they are your dad. It should be the law.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Dad #Law #People

Lover? I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Love #Thinking #Voice

I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi. But I can't exactly go up to him and say "Sushi!" out of the blue. It would be like going up to a top American businessman and saying, "T-bone steak!
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Blue #Culture #Sushi

We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare." "Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great." "Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Pigs #Scrabble #Genius

If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Home #Thinking #Needs

Except...I do. Of course I do. Because as his hands gently cup my waist, I don't make a sound. As he swivels me around to face him, I don't make a sound. I don't need to. We're still talking. Every touch he makes, every imprint of his skin is like another word, another thought, a continuation of our conversation. And we're not done yet. Not yet.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Hands #Talking #Skins

I'll have to admit, he really does have quite a smile.Kind of heart-stopping, especially as it comes out of nowhere. I mean... you know. If your heart was in the kind of place to be stopped.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Mean #Heart #Stopping

Sam doesn't hesitate for a minute. 'You say, "Mr and Mrs Tavish, you're making me feel inferior. Do you really think I'm inferior or is it just in my mind?
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Thinking #Mind #Minutes

If it's in the bin, it's public property.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Property

I can do this, I tell myself firmly. I can be attracted to him. It's just a matter of self control and possibly also getting very drunk. So I lift my glass and take several huge gulps. I can feel the bubbles surging into my head, singing happily "I'm going to be a millionaire's wife! I'm going to be a millionaire's wife!" And when I look back at Tarquin, he already looks a bit more attractive. Alcohol is obviously going to be the key to our marital status.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Glasses #Self #Keys

Oh, this shouldn't be allowed. There should be a rule which says that people you've met in the gym should never meet you in real life.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Real #People #Should

I'm sitting at the dinner table, wearing my future mother-in-law's underwear. It's like some twisted dream that you wake up and thinkL Crikey Moses! Thank God that didn't really happen!
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Mother #Dream #Law

I mean, when I think about it, what's more important? Clothes - or the miracle of new life?
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Mean #Thinking #Clothes

Obviously this is engagement ring city. Couples are wandering along and girls are pointing through the windows and the men are smiling but all look slightly sick whenever their girlfriends turn away.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Girl #Couple #Men

But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#People #Brave #Important

If I worked at White Globe Consulting, I wouldn't be able to do my job. I would spend all day texting the other people in the office, asking them what was going on today and had they heard anything new and what did they think was going to happen. Hmm. Maybe it's a good thing I'm not in an office job.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Jobs #Thinking #White

Why didn't I buy a new phone earlier? Why don't I always walk around with a spare phone? It should be the law, like having a spare tire.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Law #Phones #Tire

He so did not sit down and have a proper talk with her. I know it. He probably sent her a brief text, saying, Over. Sam.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Down And

There are moments in life that the white-chocolate Magnum ice cream was invented for, and this is one of them.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#White #Ice Cream #Chocolate

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Mother #Voice #Tears

Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, "Here! Have them all!
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Games #Battle #Chess

I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Character #My Best Friend #Weakness

I think a lot of people still fantasise about that first love and what might happen if they rekindled the relationship.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#First Love #Thinking #People

I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels!
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Fun #Writing #Financial

I'm a great fan of taking my laptop out and about.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Fans #Laptops

I'm an impulse buyer. I don't really go out with a list.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Lists #Buyers #Impulse

Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Mother #Wife #Personality

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Novelists #Organize #Great Things

The way I write is totally instinctive. I just write what I feel or what I find funny - and hope everyone else agrees.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Writing #Way #Feels

When I'm on a break from writing, I'll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly being rung by deliverymen.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Writing #Ebay #Amazon

I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when I'm asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cause that's what I feel they are. But I'm quite pragmatic.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Mean #Writing #Issues

I can't cook. I don't have the right brain for it, somehow. I can't walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Cooking #Brain #Rooms

I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very good at going to press conferences and nodding. I'd figure it out when I got back to the office. Charts and numbers. I've never been great with facts, ever, my whole life. For a journalist, that's not a very good trait.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Numbers #Office #Training

I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Children #Book #Writing

If you want something you can't afford, think what else that money could buy: a week's groceries, a month's rent, or a weekend away. That will put things into perspective.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Thinking #Weekend #Perspective

Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Philosophy #Thinking #Ideas

To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What Im writing is real.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Real #Mistake #Writing

I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Stars #Work Out #Pops

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#College #Oxford #Want

When you read my texts, you saw a curt, miserable git. And you told me so. Maybe you're right. But you know what I saw when I read yours? - Sam No. And I don't want to know. - Poppy I saw a girl who races to help others but doesn't help herself. And right now you need to help yourself. No one should walk up the aisle feeling inferior or in a different league or trying to be something they're not. - Sam
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Girl #Helping Others #Race

You fall in and out of love, but when you really love someone...it's forever.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Fall #Forever

Youth is still where you left it, and that's where it should stay. Anything that was worth taking on life's journey, you'll already have taken with you.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Taken #Journey #Youth

Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Giving Up #Use #Argument

My daily Nespresso coffee, an unexpected shaft of sunlight through the window on a winter's day, my bargain Missoni sunglasses (70 percent off!)
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Grateful #Coffee #Winter

I don't think anyone sits down and thinks, 'I know, I'll be a chick-lit writer.' You write the book that you want to write and then other people say, 'Oh, that's chick-lit.' You say, 'Okay.' But it's not like you look around and go to a careers fair and there will be someone at the chick-lit author stand.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Book #Writing #Thinking

People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Oxford #People #Advice

If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Husband #Real #Writing

You're so narrow-minded! You live in the same village you grew up in, you run the family business, you're buying a nursery down the road... you're practically still in the womb. So before you lecture me on the way to live my life, try living one of your own, OK?
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Running #Nurse #Trying

If you look good, you feel good!
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Feel Good #Looks #Feels

Shopping with friends is a great way of still enjoying the thrill of the chase without having to make a purchase. It can also be a real bonding opportunity. Helping your friend find something nice is just as rewarding as helping yourself.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Real #Nice #Opportunity

I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Selfish #Shopping #Mind

I am not a label snob and have learned that the thrill of shopping can be just as great, if not more so, when you find a bargain.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Shopping #Thrill #Labels

My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Childhood #Heroines

I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Cheer #Book #Needs

I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Book #Pseudonyms #Firsts

My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kinsella its fast, all-out comedies, such as the Shopaholic series.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Real #Drama #Writing

...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Heart #People #May

Wow. I've never been a VIP before. I've never even been a IP.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Vip #Wow

Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Educational #Book #Shopping

Emma, your granddad’s on the line,” says Artemis, putting her hand over the receiver. “Something about the night bus and he’ll never trust you again?
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Night #Hands #Lines

You don't need to change one hair. One freckle. One little toe. And if its me thats made you feel you should do this..then there's something wrong with me. -Luke Brandon
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Hair #Needs #Littles

I need good coffee!" I say in horror. "It's my only luxury!" I can't live with my parents and drink bad coffee. It's not humanly possible. Becky talking about cutting back with her parents.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Coffee #Cutting #Talking