Quotes from Liane Moriarty

The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.

Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time editing and re-editing my previous work, staring dreamily off into space, pretending that I'm thinking profound, poetic thoughts when really I'm just thinking, 'Look at me being a writer! I'm so happy I'm a writer!'

Copywriting probably did make me a commercial writer. Nobody wants to read advertising copy, so you have to keep it punchy; you almost have trick them into reading it. You have to make every sentence work.

American readers are so polite; their reactions make it seem like I've received thousands of thank-you notes. It's just lovely, and amazing the things people tell you that have touched them and related to their own lives.

There were worse things to be than sexist. For example, you could be the sort of person who pinched your fingers together while using the words "teeny weeny.

So many people have said to me that when you become a school parent, it is like going back to school yourself. Some of those insecurities come out and are projected through your child.

Now you can get on Facebook and read an article, '10 Ways You Are Ruining Your Child Forever.' I'm sure it's making us better parents in some ways, but in other ways, it is sending us all a little crazy.

'Big Little Lies' is the story of a school trivia night that goes horrifically wrong, when one parent ends up dead, possibly murdered. I have never attended a school trivia night where a parent ended up dead. In fact, I've never been to a school trivia night at all.

Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

I love hearing other people's stories, and I freely admit I'm scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same time, I'm living an ordinary life.

All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?

But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.

Every day I think, 'Gosh, you look a bit tired today,' and it's just recently occurred to me that it's not that I'm tired, it's that this is the way I look now.

It's because a woman's entire self-worth rests on her looks," said Jane. "That's why. It's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.

Reading a novel was like returning to a once-beloved holiday destination.

Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.

You've been here before. It won't kill you. It feels like you can't breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you'll never stop crying, but you actually will.

Champagne is never a mistake.

Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else.

You could jump so much higher when you had somewhere safe to fall.

Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

Perhaps nothing was ever "meant to be." There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit "bendy.

Nothing and nobody could aggravate you the way your child could aggravate you.

Did anyone really know their child? Your child was a little stranger, constantly changing, disappearing and reintroducing himself to you. New personality traits could appear overnight.