Louise Doughty quotes
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies.”
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“It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.”
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“Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit.”
-- Louise DoughtySource : Louise Doughty (2010). “Whatever You Love”, p.1, Faber & Faber
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“Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.”
Source : Adeline Yen Mah (2009). “Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter”, p.12, Laurel Leaf
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“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”
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