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
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Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies.
Louise Doughty
3.
It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.
Louise Doughty
4.
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
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Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit.
