Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

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• E. L. James:

  I think women love a passionate love story.

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  I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for

• E. L. James:

  I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.

• E. L. James:

  Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just

• E. L. James:

  I hate having my photograph taken.

• E. L. James:

  I see myself as a story teller.

• E. L. James:

  I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading

• E. L. James:

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• E. L. James:

  All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witche

• E. L. James:

  I'm a bit of a control freak.