Elizabeth Strout Quotes

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• The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.
• People like to think the younger generation's job is to steer the world to hell. But it's never true, is it? They're hopeful and good…
• Traits don't change, states of mind do.
• The appetites of the body were private battles.
• The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.
• In case you haven't noticed, people get hard-hearted against the people they hurt. Because they can't stand it. Literally. To think we did that to…
• 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 go.…
• I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to…
• He put the blinker on, pulled out onto the avenue. "Well, that was nice," she said, sitting back. They had fun together these days, they…
• I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has…
• I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.
• I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.
• If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.
• My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.
• For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of…
• I don't especially like to travel, not the way many people do. I know many people that love to go to far-off and different places,…
• I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When…
• I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing…
• I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we…
• In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and…

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