13 Jojo Moyes Quotes for You to Enjoy

Jojo Moyes

British Journalist

Born: Aug 4, 1969

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If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed. Jojo Moyes

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A stylish person, for me, is one who draws your eye without necessarily being showy; they wear clothes that are beautifully cut, flatter the wearer, and show that they are not impervious to fashion, but not a slave to it either. Jojo Moyes

I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better. Jojo Moyes

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Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages. Jojo Moyes

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I always imagined a writer was someone who lived in an attic in Paris, but my mum instilled in me a belief that I could do anything - so I ended up writing my first novel while working nights as a news reporter. Jojo Moyes

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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

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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

I think there is an awful lot of technology for technology's sake. I have yet to be convinced by my husband that persuading our mobiles to talk to our computers is going to be quicker and more straightforward than scribbling a note in our kitchen diary. Jojo Moyes

If the characters are compelling, readers will follow anywhere. Jojo Moyes

Will Characters Follow Readers Anywhere Compelling

If chick-lit really is taking a commercial battering, I'd suggest it's because the marketing has been done to death. Covering everything in girlie pink and putting chocolate in the title may once have been a clever Pavlovian device but now makes readers feel a bit sick. Jojo Moyes

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Chick-lit may be staggering on its heels, but women's fiction is alive and kicking. Jojo Moyes

Women Kicking Alive May Fiction Staggering Heels

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

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