Quotes by Louise Penny

Louise Penny

A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so’s a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.

Character

People

Years

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I’m writing is exactly that.

Novel

Thinking

Writing

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.

Book

Discipline

Lazy

After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it. Her father had jokingly accused her of living in the wreckage of her future. Until one day she’d looked deep into his eyes and saw he wasn’t joking. He was warning her.

Distance

Father

Life

Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It’s the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.

Fighting

People

Tragedy

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

Reality

Struggle

Wish

But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good works. On tiptoes or bended knee. In a big career. Or a small cabin. It would find you. The past always did. Which was why… it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. And found you… Who wouldn’t be afraid of this?

Children

Home

Past

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians,” confided Gamache. “All that silence. Gives them ideas.

Giving

Ideas

Silence

But, like peace, comfort didn’t come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.

Comfort

Firsts

Running

Don’t mistake dramatics for a conscience.

Conscience

Mistake

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Be Kind

Beautiful

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Belief

Blessed

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Broken

Captivity

Character

Childhood

Children

Comfort

Conscience

Creativity

Dangerous

Discipline

Distance

Doe

Done

Earth

Elderly

Everyday

Expression

Falling In Love

Father

Faults

Feet

Fighting

Firsts

Forgiving

Four

Giving

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Greed

Growing

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Hate

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Hero

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Horse

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Quotes by Louise Penny

Louise Penny

A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so’s a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I’m writing is exactly that.

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.

Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It’s the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians,” confided Gamache. “All that silence. Gives them ideas.

But, like peace, comfort didn’t come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.

Don’t mistake dramatics for a conscience.

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