Louise Doughty

I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes…

— Louise Doughty

“We discovered that safety and security are commodities you can sell in return for excitement but you can never buy them back.”

— Louise Doughty

“You should remind yourself that what you love is mortal, that what you love is not your own. It is granted to…

— Louise Doughty

“Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss…

— Louise Doughty

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

— Louise Doughty

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

— Louise Doughty

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

— Louise Doughty

“We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read.…

— Louise Doughty

Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss…

— Louise Doughty

“Before my daughter was lost to me, I might have attributed his apparent stillness and control to a lack of feeling, but…

— Louise Doughty