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I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better.

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You have to write the story that's at the front of your head. There is no point in trying to write for the market; it won't ring true.

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I always imagined a writer was someone who lived in an attic in Paris, but my mum instilled in me a belief that I could do anything - so I ended up writing my first novel while working nights as a news reporter.

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If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.

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Novelists seem to fall into two distinct categories - those that plan and those that just see where it takes them. I am very much the former category.

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I love 'To Kill A Mockingbird' - it seems to offer up new layers every time you read it. I also love Kate Atkinson's 'Behind The Scenes At The Museum' - that's the book that started me writing.

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My Writers Guild of America card is one of my proudest possessions. I was given it after being invited to write the script for a film of my last novel, 'Me Before You,' which is being made by MGM. Whenever I look at it, I think, 'I'm a Hollywood writer!'

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I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.

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Writers divide fairly cleanly into those who only work through what they hear and those who are more visual. I am the latter, where I lie down on my office floor and play scenes through my head to - cinematically, several times with different elements - to see what works. I can't write a scene until I can see it.

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My writing life has included the struggle to bring up three children. What I do three or four times a year is take myself off to a hotel room to unblock a problem.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: August 4th, 1969

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