Helen Fielding

My books have all generated controversy.

I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things that went out of style 30 years ago. As things go around, they come around.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

I'm a terrible grocery shopper. I hardly ever do it. And if I do, there's never more than three things in the bag.