
Variant: She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.
Source: This Lullaby
Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 7
Variant: She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.
Source: This Lullaby
Review of One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/tick, 2018
2010s
“You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.”
“I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?”
“When you learn to read you will be born again… and you will never be quite so alone again.”
If You Could Read My Mind, Track 8, Reprise
Sit Down Young Stranger (1970)
“Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…”
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles