Quotes from Jilly Cooper

If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural.

Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.

The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.

Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.

Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.