I write in the mornings once the kids have gone to school, taking my laptop and a coffee to a little writer’s room in town where I plant noise-cancelling headphones on my head and get to work. – Jane Green
I am divorced, and one of the things I am tremendously grateful for is that my ex-husband and I made a decision to go through mediation. I knew a trial would drag on for years, would cost me everything, but worse, would be devastating for our four small children. – Jane Green
Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes. – Jane Green
I treated the first few books as a very long journalistic exercise. I thought of every chapter as an article that needed to be finished. – Jane Green
I have long been fascinated by our inclination to assume others we meet have the same moral code, similar values, and yet we can never be sure. – Jane Green
I started to think about the assumptions we make that everyone we meet operates under the same moral code, and how betrayed we feel when that isn’t the case. – Jane Green
I am Superwoman. I am the author of 15 novels, including one about cancer. I am not, however, someone who ‘gets’ cancer. I am a sun worshipper who never thought it could happen to me. – Jane Green
I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I’m not terribly interested, and I don’t have the patience for it. – Jane Green
My e-books sales have overtaken everything else, so I think all the marketing has become very much driven by the author now because of social media. – Jane Green
When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have left me. I am a naturalized American and my sensibility has become far more American. – Jane Green
Twice a year, I take myself off to a self-imposed ‘writer’s retreat’, staying at a small inn or on a friend’s farm, where I am all alone and do nothing other than write. – Jane Green
Sadly, I don’t think books ever sell based on your name alone – the minute we make an assumption like that is the minute it all goes horribly wrong! – Jane Green
I have a deep and passionate love of America. It is where I have always thought I would be happiest, and although I miss England desperately, I find that my heart definitely has its home over here. – Jane Green
I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all. – Jane Green
I do know that I have always been one of life’s observers, always standing slightly on the outside, watching. – Jane Green
I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world. – Jane Green
The life of a bestselling novelist sounds like it ought to be spectacularly glamorous and fun, but in fact I spend most of my time incognito, and in fact were you to pass me in the street you would think I was just another dowdy suburban mom. – Jane Green
I am not a big skier, but I love apres-ski wear and imagine I would look great in an all-white, fur-trimmed ski suit. – Jane Green
I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know they love me, but I didn’t make much of an effort. – Jane Green
I had always presumed that my first book would be published, but I never dreamt that I would write 15 bestsellers and have this wonderful life in America that I have entirely built for myself. – Jane Green
I show the people I love that I love them by gathering them in my kitchen and feeding them, so no surprise that most of my characters do the same thing. – Jane Green