When I wrote ‘Dear Fatty,’ I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.
Writing has become my great joy – I simply love it.
I haven’t really ever had to audition for anything.
I love it when somebody makes me laugh – it’s what attracts me to people.
I know what it’s like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.
In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.
I’d like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.
I’ll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that.
I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.
That’s the awful thing about dating. Tight underwear. We would all like to be in a big bra and pants and when you are in a secure relationship you can do that.
Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it’s fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.
I don’t know what the future holds, but I have to be confident about it. It’s just the way I am.
Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?
For me, whatever age or size I’ve been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.
I am a rubbish flirt.
I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.
I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.
Im constantly astounded by how amazing women are. And as we go through all these different stages of life as long as you share them with others and say, Well, this is bloody weird, you can get through everything.