I am often criticised for being rather accessible.

- Joanna Trollope

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importan…

- Joanna Trollope

I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm no…

- Joanna Trollope

I always love writing about children.

- Joanna Trollope

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably w…

- Joanna Trollope

You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.

- Joanna Trollope

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormo…

- Joanna Trollope

You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

- Joanna Trollope

I'm no lyrical stylist, you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

- Joanna Trollope