English writer (1959- )
Often dogma masks a lack of true faith, so I can't say that it interests me much.
JULIE BURCHILL
interview, High Profiles
I'm tough, had to be. My parents tried to protect me by telling me that I was nothing and I would amount to nothing. That's why I'm so amazed when I hear middle-class parents telling their little bog-standard Imogens and Tims how wonderful they are.
JULIE BURCHILL
"I'm Cleverer than Most Men", The Times, February 1999
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
JULIE BURCHILL
Sex & Sensibility
My husbands hated it when I wrote cos I used to kill myself laughing. I was so funny. They couldn't stand that it was so easy for me. Cosmo says I wrote in a trance. I'd sit down, black out and an hour or so later two-and-a-half thousand words would be there.
JULIE BURCHILL
"I'm Cleverer than Most Men", The Times, February 1999
The fact is that happily married men don't sleep around.
JULIE BURCHILL
Sex & Sensibility
I don't have relationships with my exes -- once you've sucked all the juice out of an orange, why would you keep it around!
JULIE BURCHILL
interview, The Guardian, May 12, 2009