Elizabeth Strout Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• It's tremendously hard work. Yes, I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way and you know you're not quite there and you're redoing it and redoing it and there's a wonderful thrill to it. But it is hard.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Fall, Hard Work, Writing

  "The Authors' Roundtable". Interview with Jon Meacham, www.newsweek.com. June 26, 2009.

• I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

• I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Book, Writing, Thinking

• I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Believe, Writing, Voice

• In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Writing, Thinking, Maine

• Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Mother, Inspiration, Writing

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