Jojo Moyes
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Six rejections come back.
I'd written three books by then.
But then I pitched Me Before You.
I went from selling a handful to 60 million.
And that all happened in my 40s and 50s.
Me Before You went round the world.
I used to joke that I was like a cockroach.
Terrible things can happen, but there is something in me that just keeps ploughing on.
If I'm honest, I would have liked to feel less lonely.
But...
I read a lovely thing recently which was, I bet you turned into the adult that you needed as a child.
Oh God, sorry.
What are you doing to me?
I'm sorry.
I was trying on versions of myself and then suddenly in a newsroom I suddenly had a focus.
So I wrote Me Before You and suddenly got so many offers of work in Hollywood.
What happened then?
My mum died and I got divorced.
And then it was just survive.
That's a lot of grief.