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.

Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce.

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.

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

Oh no. I split my time between Paris and New York. They're the only places to really live.

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