Literary Birthday – 19 July – Lisa Jewell
Happy Birthday, Lisa Jewell, born on 19 July 1968.
Lisa Jewell Quotes On Writing
- This might sound daft, but starting really is the most important thing. Well – one of the two most important things – finishing is the other. If you can start and finish a book then you’re already a million miles ahead of all those people who talk about wanting to write a book.
- Writing a book is not easy. It truly isn’t. I thought it would be when I started writing, I thought it would be a doddle and I was very, very wrong. I can’t emphasise enough how important it is to bear this in my mind when you start.
- Writing a novel is a huge undertaking and feeling terrified is quite normal.
- Pace yourself. If you write too much too quickly, you’ll go off at tangents and lose your way and if you write infrequently you’ll lose your momentum. A thousand words a day is a good ticking over amount.
- Try to keep your whole life reasonably dull and routine. This helps. As for the other stuff, whiteboards, and planning and notebooks and post-its, well, that’s personal to each individual.
Read: Lisa Jewell’s 12 Writing Tips
Lisa Jewell is a British author of popular women’s fiction. She is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 19 novels. Her novels have sold over 10 million copies internationally, and her work has also been translated into twenty-nine languages. Her books include Ralph’s Party
, After The Party, The Making of Us
, Before I Met You, Then She Was Gone
, and The House We Grew Up In. Two of Jewell’s novels has been purchased for film production. In 2024, Netflix purchased the film rights to Jewell’s 2018 novel, Then She Was Gone, as well as her 2023 novel, None of This Is True. Follow her on Facebook and Instagram.
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by Amanda Patterson
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