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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
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Helen Fielding
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 19
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It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.
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I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.
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Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.
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More than two years after Mad About the Boy was published, the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries ] movie started coming together. I felt better about the material, and found myself writing a letter from Bridget to her son: explaining the original story of how he came to be, from his own Mum.
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You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz.
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I'd always hoped to write the story as a novel, but there was a long period when the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries] movie was stalled and in confusion. I felt frustrated creatively, and just couldn't work on the Baby material till the movie was sorted out.
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I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.
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It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.
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..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.
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In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism.
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I'd been working on the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries material] for years, first, in the Independent newspaper columns and then in the various versions of the movie scripts.
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If the stories don't come from the inside out, then Bridget [Jones] is not being true to herself and it's very important to me that she stays that way.
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