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.

You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.

It is horrid to smirk.

When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart.

Bridget Jones' Baby, at heart is about the gap between how you expect life to turn out and how it actually does.

When Bridget [Jones] does finally get pregnant, she 's bound to mess it up, but what I tried to show is the importance of love and kindness rather than perfection, and the importance of support from friends who help you to laugh at your mistakes and pick yourself up afterwards.

Of course the chronology of the books is a bit back- to - front, and books usually come out before movies. But happily, these [Bridget Jones's] are fictional comedy diaries - not a history of the Battle of Waterloo.