Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair sa…

- Rachel Johnson

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

- Rachel Johnson

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with yo…

- Rachel Johnson

English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest dis…

- Rachel Johnson

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and i…

- Rachel Johnson

I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's …

- Rachel Johnson

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

- Rachel Johnson

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

- Rachel Johnson

Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a…

- Rachel Johnson