Lisa Jewell Quotes

When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that I wanted to do another collected stories. I wanted to do another book like 'Drown' that focused specifically on infidelity.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

The End of the Affair is almost like a play.

I feel very grateful that I have never had to be or ever chosen to be or accidentally found myself to be in the space of the other woman.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

I once threw a water balloon on a girl because I caught her cheating on me. She was kissing my friend and I thought, 'Oh, this can't be happening.' It was bad and I was much older than you think throwing a water balloon. I was 14.

In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.

Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with.

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.

You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.

When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.

I wrote my first sucio story, as I call them, in 1997. This was always my 'cheater's book,' my book about sucios desgraciados. My plan was to write a book about how people deal with love and loss.

It's a normal thing for people to do, going on Facebook and seeing pictures of their exes with their new significant others.

People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

I was just like Jennifer Aniston with Brad Pitt when he fell in love with Angelina Jolie.

It's usually drawing on personal experience. I don't think I could dig deep enough trying to get into somebody else's life. Like 'Far From Me' - I wrote it about this waitress that I was dating when I was fifteen or so, and she broke up with me.

I feel 'Ankahee' is a very honest film. It says that in a relationship where there are three people, everybody is doomed. Nobody comes out happy.

Most movies now are drama, and the commercially successful ones are, sadly, about adulterous relationships.

If you hear that my soul mate still tells one or more of his exes he loves her, I want to know. Audio recording is preferable.

Do you remember? When the fights seemed to go on and on, and always ended with us in bed, tearing at each other like maybe that could change everything. In a couple of months you'd be seeing somebody else and I would too; she was no darker than you but she washed her panties in the shower and had hair like a sea of little punos and the first time you saw us, you turned around and boarded a bus I knew you didn't have to take. When my girl said, Who was that? I said, Just some girl.