Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward. Jojo Moyes Read Quote
In ‘Me Before You,’ the two characters popped into my head fully formed, which is really strange and unusual. Other books, I sit on them for two or three months. I have a whole routine: I buy a nice book; I hand-write all their characteristics. I put them through little tests just to see how they would react to things. Jojo Moyes Read Quote
For every book that I write… I develop a history for each person and make sure they are well rounded and flawed. You have to know everything about them from their shoe size, to where they went to school, to what their first pet was, to what they like to eat, to what they want out of life. Jojo Moyes Read Quote
I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I’ve wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead. Jojo Moyes Read Quote
I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better. Jojo Moyes Read Quote
I find my best writing time is actually 6 A.M., before the detritus of the day – the fish fingers and the school uniform and dogs and bills – have had a chance to clog up my brain. I can usually get 500 words done before 7 A.M. But it is difficult, and the Internet, and social networking, are terrible timesucks. Jojo Moyes Read Quote
Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles. Jojo Moyes Read Quote
Novelists seem to fall into two distinct categories – those that plan and those that just see where it takes them. I am very much the former category. Jojo Moyes Read Quote
I write in all sorts of places; it’s a legacy of my time as a journalist, where I could turn out copy in a hotel corridor. But I have a little office that I rent in my local town, and that’s my ideal place. Jojo Moyes Read Quote
