I like L.A. It’s like a mini break. For a writer, it’s hilarious. Like the food. Where I come from, we eat chip sandwiches: white bread, butter, tomato catsup and big fat french fries. It’s delicious. Here, you order a creme caramel and the waiter says, ‘You know, that contains dairy.’ Helen Fielding Read Quote
I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches – white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping. Helen Fielding Read Quote
I’ve had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn’t get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull. Helen Fielding Read Quote
The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you’ve put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don’t do that now. Helen Fielding Read Quote
I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already. Helen Fielding Read Quote
Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell’s body and Madeleine Albright’s career. Helen Fielding Read Quote
I certainly think I’ll end up writing about America in some form. I’ve taken plenty of notes. I like America very much. Helen Fielding Read Quote
There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you’re supposed to be. I think there’s too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There’s no real celebration of just being a person. Helen Fielding Read Quote
