With most of the events in the books [ Bridget Jones Diaries ] I draw a little bit from my own life and some from what I see happening around me..

I tend to take [ to Bridget Jones Diaries] something that nearly happened, or might have happened, and then exaggerate it to make it funny and to mak….

I made my excuses and left, thinking, really, after a certain age, people are just going to do what they're going to do and you're either going to ac….

Bridget Jones' Baby, at heart is about the gap between how you expect life to turn out and how it actually does..

I had my daughter by C-section, so knew when and where she was going to be born. I got freakishly organized and prepared a group e-mail birth announc….

When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and that everyth….

In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism..

In terms of Bridget [Jones] I honestly don't know. One thing I can say for sure is that all of these stories have been an honest, instinctive express….

I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive….

I hate Christmas. Everything is designed for families, romance, warmth, emotion and presents, and if you have no boyfriend, no money, your mother is ….

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you..

Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you..

..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'..

As Bridget writes to her son, in Bridget Jones' Baby - "if you just keep calm and keep your spirits up, things have a habit of turning out all right,….

I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little novel [Bridget Jones's B….

Though with Bridget Jones's Baby: the Diaries, I'd like to make it clear that I did not ever get pregnant by two men..

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more..

Bridget [Jones] was always, at heart, about the gap between how you feel you're expected to be and how you actually are and that gap has only widened….

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear….

I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body is u….

I'd been working on the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries material] for years, first, in the Independent newspaper columns and then in the various v….