I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already. – Helen Fielding
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing Bridget Jones to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out. – Helen Fielding
When Im on stage, its a little world Ive created where Im sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When were improvising, Im with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I dont have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage. – Colin Mochrie
There is no “underground” community, no dark den of drunken sailors initiating themselves into manhood via cheap, ill-conceived exercises in bodily perforation; it’s just a group of people who delight in using their bodies as billboards. – Joanne McCubrey, “Walking Art: Tattoos,” Mountain Democrat Weekend magazine, 199