English writer (1959- )
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
Often dogma masks a lack of true faith, so I can't say that it interests me much.
JULIE BURCHILL
interview, High Profiles
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
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
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
The fact is that happily married men don't sleep around.
JULIE BURCHILL
Sex & Sensibility