256 Quotes by Elizabeth Strout

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

I don't think there's anybody I write about who I don't care for deeply in some way, no matter what their behavior is.

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.

I was a pretty terrible lawyer. A really, really terrible lawyer.

If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.

My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.

'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.

The purpose of fiction is not to make people seem nice. What makes anyone think people are nice? Look around you!

He put the blinker on, pulled out onto the avenue. "Well, that was nice," she said, sitting back. They had fun together these days, they really did. It was as if marriage had been a long, complicatd meal, and now there was this lovely dessert.