Top 100 Jane Green Quotes
#1. As far back as I can remember, I have worshipped the sun. My skin is fair, but as the years have gone by, it has toughened and darkened. I now turn a rich golden brown every summer, but only after the first day of burning.
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#2. ..but if I can't tell my best friend, who can I tell??
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#3. I cannot believe that I am actually excited at the sight of him. It has been long since anyone has made me feel THIS ... and even though I know I've avoided THIS for fear of getting hurt, there's something about him that makes me want to trust him.
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#4. The bike crunches along the gravel path, weaving around the potholes that could present danger to someone who didn't know the road like the back of their hand.
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#5. I was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.
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#8. You discover something so awful, so life-changing, the only way you can cope is to jump straight into denial.
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#9. 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.
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#10. I always thought I'd be the quintessential Earth Mother, but when I had Harrison, I really wasn't the natural mother that I always thought I would be. I adore children, but I was never that interested in newborn babies.
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#11. Bad things always happen in three.
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#12. Ten years ago, you wrote a book and you never expected to find out anything about the author. Now with social media, everyone wants that connection. I think our readers want to be invited into our lives and brought on the journey and be part of this whole process.
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#13. I am often asked what I would be doing if I hadn't become a writer. I have long said I would probably be a chef or a garden designer or a decorator, but since recording my own books, there is no doubt in my mind that if the writing doesn't work out, voice work is what I would choose.
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#14. It's not what you think about that matters in life, it's what you actually do about it.
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#15. Melanoma is not the most common of skin cancers, but it is the most dangerous if not found in the early stages.
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#16. The only best friends she has ever really had, has ever wanted, could ever truly count on, is Elliott.
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#17. Taking a risk is always frightening, but I gave myself a set period of time and had enough money to see me through. I operated from the belief that things would be okay, that if I wasn't successful I would find myself a job, but either way, I would be fine.
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#18. Chick lit was amazing, and I was thrilled to be part of it.
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#19. I left my job as a feature writer on a newspaper to write a book, then sent it off to a number of agents thinking they would all reject me. Within a week, most had come back to say they loved what they had read, which then led to a bidding war for my first two novels.
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#20. Everyone in that garden knew it was only a matter of time before he kissed her.
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#21. Alcohol made me beautiful in a way I never felt the rest of the time.
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#22. What I've come to learn with self-publishing is that if you want to provide readers with something of equal quality, it requires the same amount of time and expense.
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#23. The bad news is that my thin melanoma has something called mitosis, which means the cancer cells are dividing and multiplying even as I write. My thin melanoma has already spread outside of the tumor and into the deep layers of skin.
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#24. 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.
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#25. I now realise how liberating all-inclusive resorts are. No carrying huge handbags anywhere. No having to worry about purses being pinched. No totting up the price in your head and fretting that you've spent too much.
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#26. 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.
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#27. I am now, at twenty-seven years old, bright, funny, warm, caring and kind. But of course people don't see that when they look at Jemima Jones. They simply see fat.
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#28. I have been incredibly lucky with my novels but I had absolutely no idea if anyone would be interested in a cookbook. So I started to think about self-publishing.
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#29. I wanted to write stories I wanted to read, that I and my friends related to.
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#30. Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.
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#31. I believe it is the flaws that make us interesting, our backgrounds, the hardships.
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#32. in which the soap star talked about her drug bust. "Louise isn't even a bloody
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#33. I learned that saying you love your friends isn't enough: that love is a verb - it requires Acts of Love. It is all about the doing, not the saying, and now I make a point, every day, of emailing or phoning or making a plan with those I love.
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#34. The key to happiness is not getting what you want but wanting what you get
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#35. we're the only ones in control of our happiness.
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#36. Love is love, Nell, in whatever form or shape it comes and those of us who have found it must not let anything get in the way.
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#37. 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.
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#38. It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?
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#39. I sigh and look at her. 'I must have been mad taking you on as a friend'. ' What are you talking about?' she grins. 'You didn't take me on. I chose you'.
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#40. Good. She is planning lunch on the deck today, is on her way into town via her neighbor's house, where she has spent the last hour or so
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#42. My teens and 20s were spent lying on sheets of tinfoil in the weak English sun, covered in baby oil. In Greece and France I would burn, then turn a dark brown.
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#43. I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I knew a publishing house that was run on fear and paranoia, and I felt sorry for everyone who worked there. Needless to say, the person at the helm was not known for kindness, warmth, or grace.
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#44. Once the intimacy has gone, however well you may get on, however friendly you may become, it is hard to believe it was ever there.
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#45. Every time we try and get it together, something happens to pull us apart, and I can't help but feel that this is just isn't meant to be. And God knows I'm happy enough on my own, but tell me, is this how am I supposed to carry on?
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#46. The fact is that blaming doesn't get you anywhere. It keeps you stuck. Blaming stops you from moving on with your life.
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#47. He was sensitive, quiet. He liked parties that were small and intimate, where you could connect with people, hear one another's thoughts, not parties with roaring music, meat markets where you couldn't hear one another think.
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#48. That's the mark of true friends. That we might not see each other for a year but when we do it's as if we were never apart.
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#49. She always says she doesn't believe women should get married before the age of thirty-five ... she says women change so much in their twenties, they can't possibly know who they are, and the choices they make before the age of thirty are rarely good ones.
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#50. The reason most second marriages break up, I had read, was because of the children.
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#51. My conscious self would do anything to avoid people with cheating tendencies, but my subconscious keeps trying to recreate home and keeps bringing me back to people who recreate my childhood.
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#52. No, really, it's fine, says the woman, getting up to leave.
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#53. Life is where you look, right? I mean look for the bad, you'll find more of the bad, look for the good, you'll find more of the good.
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#54. A friend of mine suddenly announced she had written a novel and got a publishing deal; I thought, 'Hang on ... if she can do it, I can bloody well do it, too.' That novel went to a bidding war, and went on to be a huge best-seller.
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#55. My mother grieved appropriately for a woman who had lost her husband of almost thirty years so tragically, and then, after six months, she blossomed.
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#56. I only seem to attract losers, cute losers, but I've just never been able To resist that lethal combination of black hair and green eyes.
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#57. I thought my entire life was coming apart, but I think I just realized that sometimes the thing you think is going to ruin your life is the thing that saves you.
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#58. I adore children, but I was never that interested in new born babies. It's a terrible thing to have to admit, and you're not supposed to think that way as a woman, but everyone promises it's different when you have your own. It wasn't for me, though.
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#59. I love the English language, playing with words, watching sentences fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle,
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#60. They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.
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#61. As far as I'm concerned you have to give every relationship your all because if you're going to get hurt, you're going to get hurt, but at least at the end of it you'll know you gave it your best shot.
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#62. I know plenty of people with kids in elite, private schools and had heard many stories. I have drifted into the homes of some of those very wealthy families in New York and am fascinated with the dynamic and how much freedom the children are given.
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#63. I don't listen to anything when I'm writing. I need total quiet, which is astounding, given that I spent years working for a newspaper and having to write features surrounded by ringing phones and people shouting.
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#64. I read so much about men who aren't what they seem, and particularly stories written by women who found out their husbands had a slew of secrets they knew nothing about.
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#65. I have learned that it is imperative that I make time for my friends, that they demand to be as much a part of the mix as my family and my work, and perhaps more so, because they are not an inevitability.
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#66. When I was a student, I had a part time job as a barmaid at a dodgy pub in Kent.
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#67. My husband has a cousin who discovered, in his fifties, that the man he thought was his father was actually not, and that he had not only a father he had never met, but brothers.
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#68. Amazing how spending some money, especially when you haven't got it, can perk you up.
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#69. 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.
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#70. For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers.
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#71. 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.
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#72. Having struggled with food issues and eating disorders myself, particularly when I was younger, I've long been interested in using it within my books.
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#73. She doesn't think, doesn't worry, has no anxiety. She feels no pressure when she is in her garden. She can weed for hours, losing all sense of time until her back starts to hurt and she remembers all the other things she has to do.
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#74. Other people's behavior is none of my business.
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#75. Sometimes not thinking too hard is the easiest thing of all.
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#76. No seriously. She looks like a banana. She's wearing bright yellow and brown. It's making me hungry just looking at her.
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#77. People show you who they are not by what they say, but by what they do.
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#78. You are the best person I've met in years, and if I'd met you in a year's time, or maybe even a few months, I know we could be happy together, but I can't give you what you need.
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#79. You don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.
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#80. I had just got married when I started writing my fourth novel. I'd come back from honeymoon, moved into our first house - a gorgeous little carriage house in London - and made my office on the third floor, overlooking the treetops in North West London.
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#81. Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.
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#82. I wanted something seismic to happen at the end. I wanted him to wake up so we could somehow forgive each other, say we loved each another, move on with some sense of closure, for I knew this would be the last time I saw him, but he didn't wake up, and nothing was said.
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#83. In my small, coastal New England town, an hour outside New York, I know many people who have dealt with cancer. I can reel off the names of at least 15 women I know, all in their 40s.
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#84. 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.
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#85. But maybe love doesn't have to be about lust, maybe I could learn to love, maybe.
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#86. I believed our touching to be more intense because of it's very holding back. Belief is always a choice.
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#87. Horrible as this is to admit, I think I cried less because my dad was dying than for the dad I had never had.
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#88. Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing.
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#89. By the time I sat down to write 'Family Pictures,' I hadn't written anything in almost two years, and writing, I have discovered, is a muscle: if it isn't exercised, it will atrophy.
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#90. As someone who is displaced - I left London almost fifteen years ago to make Connecticut my home - I am drawn to stories about people who don't belong, whether physically or emotionally, and who find their families of choice in their friends.
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#91. All I could see was that the one year I was really primed for holiday cheer, no one else was cooperating.
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#92. I'm not sure that insecurity is a good enough excuse for that sort of behavior. We're all insecure, and I really think he's old enough to have discovered the reasons behind his insecurity, and do something about them.
... Lucy
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#93. Sometimes in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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#94. Each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we have our happy ending, but life rarely works out in the way we expect, and our happy ending may have all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, be shaped in all sorts of unexpected ways
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#95. I think perhaps we all cook to feed some kind of hunger in ourselves. I am nourished by being surrounded by family and friends, by creating something delicious for them, by nurturing them.
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#96. Put it like this: show me a man who knows how to treat a woman like dirt, and I will faint with delight at his feet and allow him to treat me like the doormat he so clearly wants me to be.
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#97. Good relationships require kindness, commitment, and appreciation.
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#98. I no longer think you can live without passion.
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#99. She walks along the pavement, lost in thoughts about the Internet, so deeply immersed that before she knows it she's at her front door, and guess what? She completely forgot to buy some chocolate on the war home.
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#100. 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.
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