Louise Doughty Quotes

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.

Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies.

It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.

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.

Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit.

We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can turn the beast into a prince, if only we love him enough.

There's a certain sort of a man whose every charm lies in his predictability.

It must be every barrister's nightmare, something that finds him or her unprepared.

Everything is disproportionate in the middle of the night.