Sophie Kinsella Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books have been described as froth but there's scope to be witty and ironic about everything in life.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Witty, Book, Writing

  "Big ideas". Interview with Alice Wignall, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2004.

• Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don't remember any half-blood prince. "What's this?" Trying to sound casual, I point at the ad, "What's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?" "That's the latest book," Garth the other trainee, says. "It came out ages ago." I can't help gasping. "There's a sixth Harry Potter?" "There's a seventh out soon!" Diana steps forward eagerly. "And guess what happens at the end of book six-" "Shh!" exclaims Nicole, the other nurse. "Don't tell her!

  Sophie Kinsella

  Book, Blood, Nurse

• Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace

  Sophie Kinsella

  Educational, Book, Shopping

• I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Cheer, Book, Needs

• I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Book, Pseudonyms, Firsts

• I don't think anyone sits down and thinks, 'I know, I'll be a chick-lit writer.' You write the book that you want to write and then other people say, 'Oh, that's chick-lit.' You say, 'Okay.' But it's not like you look around and go to a careers fair and there will be someone at the chick-lit author stand.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Book, Writing, Thinking

• 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.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Children, Book, Writing

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