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 d….

But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else..

It is horrid to smirk..

Oh God. valentine's Day tomorrow. Why? Why? Why is (the) entire world geared to make people not involved in romance feel stupid when everyone knows r….

I like L.A. It's like a mini break. For a writer, it's hilarious. Like the food. Where I come from, we eat chip sandwiches: white bread, butter, toma….

I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are ve….

It's amazing how much time and money can be saved in the world of dating by close attention to detail. A white sock here, a pair of red braces there,….

That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized I was writing in Bridget's voi….

Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me..

9p.m. My flat. Feel very strange and empty. Is all very well thinking everything is going to be different when you come back but then it is all the s….

Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the abilit….

I realize it has become too easy to find a diet to fit in with whatever you happen to feel like eating and that diets are not there to be picked and ….

The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at t….

One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time apart', 'serious talk' or 'mayb….

In terms of myself, my next big plan is to loose 7llb (as I've been planning to do since I was seventeen) Also to go to the gym three times a week, n….

It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and in….

I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend,….

Exes should never, never go out with or marry other people but should remain celibate to the end of their days in order to provide you with a mental ….

You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz..

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious..

I will not get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen..