Louise Doughty
I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise the story isn’t about you.Collection: Children
Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies.Collection: Writing
It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.Collection: Reading
Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what we love belongs to us forever.Collection: Pain
Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit.Collection: Memories