The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago. Elizabeth Strout More Quotes by Elizabeth Strout More Quotes From Elizabeth Strout The purpose of fiction is not to make people seem nice. What makes anyone think people are nice? Look around you! Elizabeth Strout look think you people As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor. Elizabeth Strout hospital doctor like drama I love the comfort of daily life's routines: things like being able to read a paper on the subway. It's no accident that my favourite word is 'quotidian.' Elizabeth Strout daily comfort love life I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it. Elizabeth Strout i-am myself work love
