"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 isnâ€™t about you."

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Louise Doughty

#Children Quotes #Creativity Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“"It's not just about Jen," he said. "It's about the entire romantic system. Ninety-nine percent of men are in love with the top one percent of women. And yet they often refuse to date us. It's a complete injustice.”
“I was like a Borscht Belt comedian trapped in the body of a 6-year-old. I was channeling Jackie Mason at 7.”
“Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.”

Source : Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House
“You grow the fastest by getting... adopting ideas and technologies from other cultures. And that has been proven in history, time and time again. Whether you go back to the ancient Persians, or the Romans, or the Ottomans. It's how a culture grows, by incorporating other ideas and going, wow, how did they do this? Oh, I bet you this works with this, and then you can improve it again. So I think any culture that sort of says, no no no, it's just us, nobody gets in anymore, it's the beginning of atrophy, and the rest of the world will just pass you.”
“No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.”
“Gratitude creates the most wonderful feeling. It can resolve disputes. It can strengthen friendships. And it makes us better men and women.”
“No one is talking. No one is emailing. No one is texting. It's spooky and scary.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 7, 2015
“I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.”

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