Quotes from E. L. James

I think women love a passionate love story.

I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.

Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.

I really like clever men who challenge you.

I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading 'Fifty Shades.'

I hate having my photograph taken.

I see myself as a story teller.

All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.

Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.

I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me

If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.

I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.

Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'

Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.

Never trust a man who can dance.

I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.

Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

I think women love to read love stories.

God forbid that women have fantasies.

I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.

I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.