Top 24 Quotes by Jilly Cooper

I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off.

You've simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether they'll be there tomorrow, do you?

I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.

If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural.

But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

But really I'm not terribly interested in what I eat.

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

My own parents loved each other very much.

Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.