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I find my best writing time is actually 6 A.M., before the detritus of the day - the fish fingers and the school uniform and dogs and bills - have had a chance to clog up my brain. I can usually get 500 words done before 7 A.M. But it is difficult, and the Internet, and social networking, are terrible timesucks.
- Jojo Moyes
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#Brain
#Chance
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#Time
I started writing novels by not thinking about actually writing a whole novel - that felt altogether too daunting. I thought out a rough idea, then wrote chapter by chapter, and then by the time I'd hit 40,000 words, it was a challenge just to see if I could get to the end.
- Jojo Moyes
#Challenge
#See
#Thinking
#Time
#Words
Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
- Jojo Moyes
#Day
#Moving Forward
#Tomorrow
#Words
I think there is an awful lot of technology for technology's sake. I have yet to be convinced by my husband that persuading our mobiles to talk to our computers is going to be quicker and more straightforward than scribbling a note in our kitchen diary.
- Jojo Moyes
#Computers
#Diary
#Kitchen
#Technology
Don't set pen to paper until you know your main characters inside out. Create files detailing their appearances, likes, dislikes, and personal background. You may not use all the information, but it is a crucial step in planning your story.
- Jojo Moyes
#Information
#Know
#Pen
#Planning
#Step
In 'Me Before You,' the two characters popped into my head fully formed, which is really strange and unusual. Other books, I sit on them for two or three months. I have a whole routine: I buy a nice book; I hand-write all their characteristics. I put them through little tests just to see how they would react to things.
- Jojo Moyes
#Me
#Nice
#React
#Routine
#See
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!'
- Jojo Moyes
#America
#Film
#Look
#Me
#Possessions
I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story.
- Jojo Moyes
#Family
#Life Story
#Life
#People
#Person
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.
- Jojo Moyes
#I Am
#I Can
#Lie
#See
#Work
We seem to live in an age where we are quietly appalled by the idea of appetites, whether they be for sex, food or diamonds.
- Jojo Moyes
#Age
#Diamonds
#Food
#Live
#Sex
If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.
- Jojo Moyes
#Cry
#Feeling
#Key
#Scene
#Writing
My go-to winter recipe is beef and butternut squash stew, cooked in the slow oven all day.
- Jojo Moyes
#Beef
#Day
#Recipe
#Slow
#Winter
Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.
- Jojo Moyes
#Never
#Process
#Rain
#Rejection
#Three
Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.
- Jojo Moyes
#Family
#Great
#Love Is
#Love
#Romantic
What love is depends on where you are in relation to it. Secure in it, it can feel as mundane and necessary as air - you exist within it, almost unnoticing. Deprived of it, it can feel like an obsession; all consuming - a physical pain.
- Jojo Moyes
#Air
#Feel
#Love Is
#Love
#Pain
For every book that I write... I develop a history for each person and make sure they are well rounded and flawed. You have to know everything about them from their shoe size, to where they went to school, to what their first pet was, to what they like to eat, to what they want out of life.
- Jojo Moyes
#History
#Life
#Person
#Pet
#School
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