she doesn’t really have a sense of humor. I think she’d like to have one—it’s just that she doesn’t quite understand what jokes are for.

And we spend the rest of the evening getting very pissed and eating ice cream, as we always do when something good or bad happens to either one of us.

sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!

A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.

My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kinsella its fast, all-out comedies, such as the Shopaholic series.