Joanna Trollope famous quotes

04-17-2025

The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.
-- Joanna Trollope

#Love #Children #Men
You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.
-- Joanna Trollope

#Book #Library #Rooms
I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.
-- Joanna Trollope

#Perfect #Intellectual #Stylist
I am often criticised for being rather accessible.
-- Joanna Trollope
I always love writing about children.
-- Joanna Trollope

#Children #Writing
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.
-- Joanna Trollope

#Growing Up #Writing #Advice
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.
-- Joanna Trollope

#Girl #Men #Cupcakes
You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.
-- Joanna Trollope

#Character #Helping
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.
-- Joanna Trollope

#Character #Views #Voice
You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.
-- Joanna Trollope

#People #Change Yourself #Situation
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.
-- Joanna Trollope

#Book #Going Out #World
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!
-- Joanna Trollope

#Kindness #Home #Appreciate
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.
-- Joanna Trollope

#Names #Differences #Perception
I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.
-- Joanna Trollope

#Writing #Way

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