It's tremendously hard work. Yes, I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way and you… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I don't especially like to travel, not the way many people do. I know many people that love to go to far-off… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anybody I write about who I don't care for deeply in some way, no matter what their behavior… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way, and you know you're not quite there,… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing.… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
She remembered was hope was, and this was it. That inner churning that moves you forward, plows you through life the way… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“what young people did not know. They did not know that lumpy, aged, and wrinkled bodies were as needy as their own young, firm… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“I said on the phone to my mother, “I think I’m going to write the story of the Burgess kids.” “It’s a good one,”… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“And she learned - freshly, scorchingly - of the privacy of sorrow. It was as though she had been escorted through a door into… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“He looked at the books, and she wanted to say, 'Stop that,' as though he were reading her diary.” — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“The year that followed - was it the happiest year of his own life? He often thought so, even knowing that such a thing… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I have to pay attention to what I have felt and observed, then push these responses to an extreme while keeping the story within… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“She could hear in the darkness of her car how his breathing was quicker now; and her own was, too. She wanted to say… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“Abdikarim shook his head in his darkened room, sweat coming from his face down onto his neck. “No, he cuts my heart. You didn’t… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I like people a lot, but I am not comfortable in literary New York situations. There is deep anxiety and tension around success here.… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is I always have a really high sense of responsibility to the reader, whether it's a few readers that… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
