List of Helen Fielding Quotes

In Terms Of Myself, My Next Big Plan Is To Loose 7llb (as I've Been Planning To Do Since I Was Seventeen) Also To Go To The Gym Three Times A Week, Not Merely To Buy A Sandwich. And Also De-clutter The Garage.

For Me, Writing Bridget's [jones] Stories Is An Instinctive, Organic Thing, Which Tends To Happen More By Accident Than Design.

I'd Always Hoped To Write The Story As A Novel, But There Was A Long Period When The [bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries] Movie Was Stalled And In Confusion. I Felt Frustrated Creatively, And Just Couldn't Work On The Baby Material Till The Movie Was Sorted Out.

That's When The Idea For Mad About The Boy Arrived. It Wasn't Even A Bridget [jones] Story Initially - Then I Realized I Was Writing In Bridget's Voice And It Grew From There Into A Bridget Novel.

More Than Two Years After Mad About The Boy Was Published, The [bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries ] Movie Started Coming Together. I Felt Better About The Material, And Found Myself Writing A Letter From Bridget To Her Son: Explaining The Original Story Of How He Came To Be, From His Own Mum.

I Had My Daughter By C-section, So Knew When And Where She Was Going To Be Born. I Got Freakishly Organized And Prepared A Group E-mail Birth Announcement. Unfortunately, I Accidentally Pressed Send All. I Then Had To Send Another E-mail Saying, "i'm Really Sorry But I Haven't Actually Had The Baby Yet." Then, When I Actually Did Have The Baby, I Felt Too Embarrassed To Send Another E-mail Saying, "i've Definitely Had The Baby Now."

With Most Of The Events In The Books [ Bridget Jones Diaries ] I Draw A Little Bit From My Own Life And Some From What I See Happening Around Me.

I Tend To Take [ To Bridget Jones Diaries] Something That Nearly Happened, Or Might Have Happened, And Then Exaggerate It To Make It Funny And To Make It Tie Into The Themes.

I'd Been Working On The [bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries Material] For Years, First, In The Independent Newspaper Columns And Then In The Various Versions Of The Movie Scripts.

I Think The Pressure To Be Perfect Generally In Life Has Amped Up Massively In The Last Twenty Years: Especially For Young People With The Advent Of Social Media.

In Terms Of Parenthood, I Think The Pressure Has Amped Up Massively Too. Some Parents Are Setting The Bar Ludicrously High In Terms Of Doing Things "right," And Seeing Children More As Products To Be Perfected Than Simply Children.

Bridget Jones' Baby, At Heart Is About The Gap Between How You Expect Life To Turn Out And How It Actually Does.