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Jilly Cooper, CBE (born 21 February 1937) is an English author. She began her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975. She is most famous for writing the Rutshire Chronicles.

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I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.

Basically, Happy, Happy Person, Person, Persons, Very Happy

The letter of application. . . should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.

Application, Page, Reading, Running, Work

in a village you can't sack or fight with someone, as you'll find yourself stuck beside them in the hairdresser's next morning.

Fight, Fighting, Finding Yourself, Morning, Village

It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.

Office, Pressure, Terrible

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.

Alive, Assure, Class, Mind, Minds, People

But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.

Book, Processing, Tax, Thinking, Word, Writing

There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

Become, England, Praying, Word, Workshopkeepers, Workshops

People who can write a book usually do.

Book, People, Usually, Write, Writing

Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.

Jobs, Keep, Lots, Training, Work

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

Clock, Home, Start, Want, Work

Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.

Age, Begin, Men, Single, Six

Without doubt, keep a diary. From the day you're born, keep a diary, because we all forget things so quickly.

Day, Diaries, Doubt, Forget, Keep, Things

If you feel compelled to give a New Year's Eve party, don't invite people to arrive too early or they'll go off the boil before midnight.

Arrive, New Year, Party, People, Years

I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home.

Holiday, Home, Like, Proving, Way, Wild

At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.

Cabbage, Down, Home, Make, Soup, Vats

Youve simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether theyll be there tomorrow, do you?

Family And Friends, Friends, Goes On, Know, Simply, Tomorrow

The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes.

Blow, Dust, Eye, Whirlwind

But really I'm not terribly interested in what I eat.

Eat, Interested, Terribly

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

Earliest, Pieces, Sunday, Times, Wife

I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.

Abroad, Family, Like, Miss, Missing, More Time

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