I Will Not Get Upset Over Men,

I Always Market Research My Books Before I Hand Them In By Showing Them To Five Or Six Close Friends Who I Trust To Be Honest With Me, So They Are Very Heavily Re-written Already.

I'm No Good At Anything. Not Men. Not Social Skills. Not Work. Nothing.

I Was Writing An Earnest Novel About Cruises In The Caribbean And I Just Started Writing 'bridget Jones' To Get Some Money, To Finance This Earnest Work, And Then I Chucked It Out.

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.

The Whole Point Of Diaries Is That Other People Find Them And Read What You've Put. I Did Once Take To Writing My Inner Thoughts On The Computer At The End Of Other Things I Was Writing And Ended Up Faxing Four Pages Of Hideous Stuff To My Accountant So I Don't Do That Now.