Author: Joanna Trollope

Quotes

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.

- Joanna Trollope

I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.

I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.

- Joanna Trollope

I don't need to marry again. I've been married twice, and I love it when it works, but these days we live until we're 80 and marriages are jolly long.

I don't need to marry again. I've been married twice, and I love it when it works, but these days we live until we're 80 and marriages are jolly long.

- Joanna Trollope

I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.

I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.

- Joanna Trollope

You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

- Joanna Trollope

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

- Joanna Trollope

Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.

Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.

- Joanna Trollope

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