Rowan Coleman: A Self Portrait
Rowan Coleman Revealed
About Rowan Coleman
Revealing Questions
- Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
- A. Complicated, busy, delightful, fortunate, difficult, funny, intriguing and rewarding!
- Q. What is your motto or maxim?
- A. It's all material!
- Q. How would you describe perfect happiness?
- A. My daughter and I, somewhere sunny hand in hand.
- Q. What’s your greatest fear?
- A. Letting people down
- Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be?
- A. On the beach in St Ives, Cornwall UK - watching my little girl play in the sea and hoping to spot some wild seals.
- Q. Which living person do you most admire?
- A. I have to say my little girl, she's had year of very difficult changes and she's handled them with the grace, spirit and optimism that I am in awe of.
- Q. What are your most overused words or phrases?
- A. It must be time for cake!
- Q. What do you regret most?
- A. That piece of cake. No, I regret that something that should have worked out ten years ago didn't and that its taken me ten years to make it right. And that's all about I can say about that.
- Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?
- A. I would love to be able to really sing.
- Q. What is your greatest achievement?
- A. I am so proud that I do for a job now what I dreamt about doing as a little girl.
- Q. What’s your greatest flaw?
- A. Letting my imagination run away with me.
- Q. What’s your best quality?
- A. Letting my imagination run away with me.
- Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be?
- A. I would be a fabulously successful soprano, about to go on stage at Carnegie Hall.
- Q. What trait is most noticeable about you?
- A. I like to laugh a lot.
- Q. Who is your favorite fictional hero?
- A. Jane Eye, without question. What a incredibly brilliant character who started a revolution in literature and in some way paved the way for every fictional heroine ever to follow.
- Q. Who is your favorite fictional villain?
- A. Is Miss Haversham, from Great Expectations a villain? I think she is, although only because she is bitter and lonely and burning with anger. I read that Dickens based her on a real bride who was jilted on her wedding day and never took off her dress again. What a powerful, compelling dark and dangerous character!
- Q. What is your biggest pet peeve?
- A. People who are late - why should I waste the precious moments of my life waiting for you to get your act together?
- Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing?
- A. I am partial to a bit of shopping.....
- Q. What 3 personal qualities are most important to you?
- A. Honesty, humor and good faith.
- Q. If you could eat only one thing for the rest of your days, what would it be?
- A. Chocolate Cake
- Q. What are your 5 favorite songs?
- A. Somebody to Love, by Queen, Livin' on a Prayer by Bon Jovi, Summertime by Gershwin, Somewhere Over the Rainbow and Natural Woman by Aretha Franklin.
On Books and Writing
- Q. What are your 5 favorite books of all time?
- A. Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Romeo and Juliet ( I know its a play, but its the most perfect play ever written and just as compelling to read as a novel) Great Expectations, Anne of Green Gables, Wuthering Heights.
- Q. Is there a book you love to reread?
- A. Oh dear....yes but I'm not saying which - that's mean.
- Q. Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?
- A. You will never be a writer if you don't actually write anything.
- Q. What comment do you hear most often from your readers?
- A. Your book made me laugh out loud on a bus/train/in a cafe and everyone looked at me. Cool.
