Top 73 Quotes by Jane Green

For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers.

I think perhaps we all cook to feed some kind of hunger in ourselves. I am nourished by being surrounded by family and friends, by creating something delicious for them, by nurturing them.

I have been incredibly lucky with my novels but I had absolutely no idea if anyone would be interested in a cookbook. So I started to think about self-publishing.

I show the people I love that I love them by gathering them in my kitchen and feeding them, so no surprise that most of my characters do the same thing.

I had always presumed that my first book would be published, but I never dreamt that I would write 15 bestsellers and have this wonderful life in America that I have entirely built for myself.

I consider myself pretty fearless, but the one thing I have always been frightened of is cancer.

I was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel.

I have long been fascinated by our inclination to assume others we meet have the same moral code, similar values, and yet we can never be sure.

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.

Twice a year, I take myself off to a self-imposed 'writer's retreat', staying at a small inn or on a friend's farm, where I am all alone and do nothing other than write.