Louise Penny Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I would die from loneliness. I know that the real blessing here isn't that I have a book published, but that I have so many people to thank.

  Louise Penny

  Real, Loneliness, Book

  Louise Penny (2008). “Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.10, Macmillan

• The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.

  Louise Penny

  Book, Childhood, Parent

• Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.

  Louise Penny

  Book, Grateful, Mean

• A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

  Louise Penny

  Book, Discipline, Lazy

• I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to turn it into a TV series. This would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with the characters, and that just wasn't an option for me.

  Louise Penny

  Book, Character, Rights

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