Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies. Louise Doughty More Quotes by Louise Doughty More Quotes From Louise Doughty I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise the story isn’t about you. Louise Doughty creativity children thinking It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy. Louise Doughty cozy murder reading 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 pain taken loss Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit. Louise Doughty body mind memories