Best 6 quotes of Louise Doughty on MyQuotes

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.

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

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

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.

Read. Read as if your life depended on it because your life as a novelist does.

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.