Quotes from Katie Fforde

Laura read a lot. She lived alone in a tiny bedsit and her television was so small and snowy she didnt watch it much. But she read all the time: at bedtime, while she ate, while she cooked, while she dressed and while she brushed her teeth. She would have read in the shower if she could have worked out a method that wouldnt completely ruin the book. In the same way she could read anywhere, she could read anything, and if it was good, enjoy it.

She much preferred to be safely on the outside of life, watching, than deeply involved.

I created the Katie Fforde Bursary because I was a nearly there writer for a long time. I found it a bit of a struggle to pay my annual subscription to the Romantic Novelists' Association so when I finally became published, I wanted to give something back. That's the bursary, a year's subscription and a place at the conference. It does seem to give people a valuable boost to their confidence. People can find out more about the Romantic Novelists' Association at www.rna-uk.org

My best advice for aspiring writers is to read a lot and write. Don't worry if you don't get your first, fifth or tenth novel published, if you keep going you'll make it. Also read how to write books as they may make the process a bit quicker.

But the trouble with falling in love was that it was involuntary, no matter how well you knew it was a bad idea, if it was going to happen, it happened, and you couldn't prevent it, however much you wanted to.

Don't cry over anything that can't cry over you.

What I like most about the stories I write is exploring other lives and professions. It's a way of having all the jobs I can't have now. I can also give myself skills I don't have.

Never trouble trouble, till trouble troubles you

She tried to sound casual and upbeat but in her heart she felt a sudden bleakness.

to get in on both sides, and there's space for a

Then she made herself a hot-water bottle, for company as much as warmth, and went slowly up to bed.

I wouldn't accept your help if I was blind and needed guidance across a six-lane highway. Now please go away!

No, I pay the newsagent. And for someone so pernickety about whose business is whose, you're asking a lot of very personal questions.

Emily felt churlish for being disappointed.

But you're worth crying over. So i've decided you're staying here with me all night - or at least until I've given you twenty-seven orgasms.' Gina found herself a bit breathless. 'Twenty-seven? That's a very specific number.' 'I'm a very specific sort of man. Now each up.

An Arundel Tomb"

The trouble was, when you're in love with someone they are in the forefront of your mind the whole time and there isn't a whole lot you can do about it. It kind of defines being in love.