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I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.

Sophie Kinsella

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Sophie Kinsella
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 12
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Madeleine Wickham
Madeleine Sophie Wickham
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Best
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Weaknesses
Feels
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Love
Flaws
Like
Weakness
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Friends

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Just because of that one disastrous blind date she had last year, where the guy turned out to be fifty-nine, not thirty-nine (He claimed it was a typo. Yeah, I’m sure his finger just happened to slip two spaces to the left).
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Great. Just great. One glimpse of his body and I have a full-blown crush. I honestly thought I was a bit deeper than that.
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We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?
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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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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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I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.
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Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.
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Women need chocolate. It's a scientific fact.
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I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff.
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Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something?
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You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.
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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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Jeez Louise. I know why rich people are so thin: it's from trekking around their humongous houses the whole time.
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But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.
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I had a craving for pineapple and a pink cardigan - Becky Bloomwood Shopaholic and Baby
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Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury.
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If you want something you can't afford, think what else that money could buy: a week's groceries, a month's rent, or a weekend away. That will put things into perspective.
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Ciao, I say casually, and flick my hair back. Si. Ciao. I could so be Italian. Except I might have to learn a few more words.
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The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good.
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My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.
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