Top 18 Quotes by Philippa Gregory

The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold.

Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.

I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.

I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.

I like writing historical fiction.

I don't shop as much as a lot of people but I do like designer clothes.

I don't much like Singapore. It's very big, very modern and very urbanised. As a rule, I prefer older places where you get a sense of the history.

When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would tell me to put them back.

I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think is twice as difficult as writing either history or fiction.

I try to go to the gym three times a week, and I swim, too.