Oh, I do a tremendous amount of rewriting. I just obsessively rewrite. Although sometimes there are sections, sometimes you’re just lucky and a paragraph will just kind of come out. And that’s great. But that’s not ordinary in a day’s work. Elizabeth Strout Read Quote
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. It’s a job of tremendous anxiety for me. Elizabeth Strout Read Quote
I don’t think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, ‘I might do the dishes,’ I don’t. But then the dishes multiply. Elizabeth Strout Read Quote
Pnin’ by Vladimir Nabokov, which is a literally small book, fit right in my common law book. I would sit in class and read it. Elizabeth Strout Read Quote
I sometimes miss the sense of excitement that I remember having when I was younger. I miss that sense of, ‘Oh wow.’ I think it’s part of aging. Elizabeth Strout Read Quote
I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them… whether that’s in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we’re kind of more alike than we are different. Elizabeth Strout Read Quote
My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it. Elizabeth Strout Read Quote
I’ve always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I’ve always been touched by the idea of criminality. Elizabeth Strout Read Quote
