Quotes by : Naomi Wood

I want to be a good man, a good writer.""Be one or the other, Ernest, not both.

Martha thanks Sylvia, gesturing with the book. "Just remember not to try to hard with understanding it,....

But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.

Ernest chose to go, she finally thinks, watching the fire turn the papers black. He loved her but he....

No man should be asked to live with so much sadness, and with so little promise of relief.

Talents too many, not enough of any.

The hangover: such a cure, she thinks, for overthinking.

No one ever tells you that: that there’s no method. Writing’s a lawless place.

The longer I don't write, the more I hurt.

Paris without a good book is like a pretty girl with only one eye.