I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little novel [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].

I realize it has become too easy to find a diet to fit in with whatever you happen to feel like eating and that diets are not there to be picked and mixed but picked and stuck to, which is exactly what I shall begin to do once I've eaten this chocolate croissant.

Nobody wants to be racist and I think that most people aren't.

That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized I was writing in Bridget's voice and it grew from there into a Bridget novel.

I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism.