Louise Doughty famous 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.
-- Louise Doughty

#Children #Creativity #Thinking

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.
-- Louise Doughty

#Pain #Taken #Loss

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

#Writing #Enemy #Allies

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

#Reading #Cozy #Murder

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

#Memories #Mind #Body

The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.

There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.

I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do you even FIND a Jewish hard-line conservative Republican pot-smoker? Sounds like an Oprah Winfrey guest.

Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.

Think it over, think it under.

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.