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I'm not a girly girl at all.
I've never regretted not having kids.
I've got no desire to be famous myself.
I'm such a sucker for the Tiffany blue box.
I tend to make snap judgements about people.
The Killers and Kaiser Chiefs are great for exercise.
Ricky and I met aged 22 at University College London.
I started out working as a script editor and storyliner.
I'm stupidly shy. It's the thing I dislike most about myself.
I hope I never become that person who is all about getting Botox.
I'm such a solitary person that working on my own is perfect for me.
My idea of the perfect day is nothing to do and a great book on the go.
The idea of appearing in front of an audience or on live TV terrifies me.
Painting my nails is the easiest way to look as though I've made an effort.
What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months.
I have always had a bee in my bonnet about being seen to do things for myself.
I rarely go out at night - usually once every two weeks. I'm much happier staying in.
If you spend too much time in L.A., you might start to lose a sense of what's normal.
You just don't come across proper, deep, loyal friendships very easily later on in life.
People always say, 'My family is so normal,' and when you poke into them, they never are.
My dad used to cut out newspaper ads and post them to me in the hope I'd get a proper job.
When I started working from home, I made a promise to myself to go out at least once a day.
I've got a really good group of friends. I don't feel the need to go out and forge new bonds.
The earlier I wake up, the better my day, so I try to get out of bed between 5 A.M. and 7 A.M.
Everyone has bits of dysfunction in their families, but I actually have a very nice, happy one.
I've always worked out, but running pushed bits of me harder than anything else I had ever done.
My biggest source of inspiration is listening to people's conversations. I'm a big eavesdropper.
There's something lovely about writing a book, doing what you want. I love the solitariness of it.
Luckily my own life is uncomplicated, which lets me really enjoy other people's complicated messes!
'Teachers' is in no way a realistic soap; we're not trying to do that, which is why we never do 'issues.'
Whenever I'm out, I have a bit of a yearning to be in my house, to be able to shut the door on the world.
Getting up early means I can write for a few hours before anyone starts phoning me or ringing the doorbell.
I'm turning into one of those people who writes to the actors on 'Coronation Street' - a really obsessive fan.
I'm not a gossip. The worst thing anyone can say to me is, 'Ooh, I've got some gossip.' I'm like, 'Oh, shut up.'
Since I was an adult, I've always lived in the centre of London - King's Cross, Bloomsbury - and never thought I'd leave.
I just feel that if you're going to have kids, you need to believe that, emotionally, you can give them a really good life.
I think it makes you a good listener about other people's relationships when you haven't got that much to say about your own.
Thirty is still the iconic number. It's when people compare their actual lives with what they think they should have achieved.
I write about messy relationships - between friends, rivals, married couples, siblings. I'm not really interested in boy/girl romances.
The best thing about a British winter is the cold weather, real fires, frosty mornings. I love living somewhere that has proper seasons.
Bizarrely, I've been called selfish for not having children. Surely it's more selfish to have a child when you don't really want a child?
One reviewer dubbed my first book, 'Getting Rid of Matthew,' 'chick noir,' and another called it 'anti chick lit,' both of which I loved.
Our Siamese cat, Ollie, is like a dog in a cat's body because she is really loyal and very chatty, following me around the house all day.
I never show my books to Ricky. His writing is very different, and anyway, he's only read one novel in his life: 'The Catcher in the Rye.'
I remember watching a 'Big Brother' contestant saying that she wanted to be a footballer's wife. I thought, 'What is the world coming to?'
When I left university with a history degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do, and I was terrified of accidentally ending up in the wrong career.
I suppress stress to the point where it will force its way through my skin in the form of a large angry pimple because that's the only channel it has.
One thing that was drummed into me when I was younger is that you have to make your own way in life, that you mustn't expect anyone else to support you.
I think a lot of people assume you need to be born into a special creative family to have a career as a writer. So I never thought it would happen for me.
I am too much of a worrier. I'm the person who thinks about calling round all the hospitals when someone is five minutes later than they said they would be.