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It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.


Amy Jo Martin

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JO WALTON I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.
JO BRAND It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.
JO WALTON You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all th...
JO NESBO I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.
JO NESBO Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the wh...
JO BRAND I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the...
JO NESBO They had studied law, information technology and art history as part of their beauty treatment, they...
JO NESBø My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any ...
JO NESBO It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.
JO BRAND Indeed, by refusing to tackle Assad's brutality, we may actively alienate more of the Sunni popu...
JO COX I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of...
JO BRAND All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I de...
JO NESBO Yorkshire folk are not fools: talk about devolving power to cities and regions, while simultaneously...
JO COX 'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that ...
JO NESBO I live on a big old Dutch barge by Tower Hill on the Thames.
JO COX