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I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.

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Sophie Kinsella
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 12
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Journalist
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London
England
Madeleine Wickham
Madeleine Sophie Wickham
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Look into your heart- and go after what you really want.
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I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term when I'm asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cause that's what I feel they are. But I'm quite pragmatic.
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If it's in the bin, it's public property.
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To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What Im writing is real.
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When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card. (Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)
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Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.
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We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare. Scrabble? He sounds surprised. Scrabble's great. Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'.
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You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.
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Everyone keeps saying I’ll pick it up. But what if I don’t? I did algebra for three years, and I never picked that up.
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Sometimes, when I can't get to sleep, I imagine all the rules I'd invent if I ever got to be in charge of the world.
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The way I write is totally instinctive. I just write what I feel or what I find funny - and hope everyone else agrees.
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