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

- Louise Doughty

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

- Louise Doughty

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

- 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 of what we love belongs to us forever.

- Louise Doughty

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

- Louise Doughty