Quotes by Jenny Downham

About Jenny Downham:

Jenny Downham is a British novelist and an ex-actress. She has published two books, Before I Die, the fictional account of the last few months of a sixteen-year-old girl who has been dying of leukeamia for four years. The book is told in the first person.
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I like you," he said. He made it sound as if she was bound to disagree with him. She nodded. His face said he was telling her something very important. He said, "I mean it. Whatever happens, you have to believe that.

Jenny Downham

Help me, Mikey, she wanted to say. I’m afraid. More afraid than you’d ever believe.’ And he’d take her hand and they’d fly across the rooftops and up into space and sit on some planet and watch a double sunrise or maybe a star being born or...

Jenny Downham

I get a lot of letters, mostly from family members who have been affected by cancer rather than young people themselves. I reply to them all.

Jenny Downham

If I learnt anything at all about terminal illness in my research, it's that the experience is different for everyone. I do believe that life becomes concentrated when it's boundaried and that death is the biggest boundary of all.

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As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth c...

Jenny Downham

When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficult to manage. I'd always written, but began to do so with real commitment now that it was my only creative outlet. I used all my acting techniques to ...

Jenny Downham

I never plan a structure. I like surprises. I'm quite disciplined and sit at my desk every day and just write.

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Author Bio

  • NameJenny Downham
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • Born1964
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionAuthor