Quotes by Lauren Willig

Lauren Willig

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one’s manners.

Knitting

Manners

Needles

But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning when my alarm is set for seven.

Book

Morning

Writing

Gentlemen do so appreciate a nicely trimmed décolletage.

Appreciate

Gentleman

Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up one morning and find oneself bereft of brothers, parents, friends, all with the slice of an ax.

Believe

Brother

Morning

I know historians aren’t supposed to fall in love with their own theories, but I was head over heels about the notion of an entire band of female French agents, like a nineteenth-century Charlie’s Angels. Only better. It made the Pink Carnation’s organization look positively humdrum.

Angel

Falling In Love

Organization

I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine I’ll still be questing after just that right combination of words.

Beautiful

Thinking

Writing

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

Clever

Cutting

Party

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.

Cynicism

Human Nature

Lovely

It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better.

Battle

Sniping

Usual

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

Disease

Idiot

Lasts

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Angel

Appreciate

Battle

Beautiful

Believe

Book

Brother

Cheer

Clever

Cousin

Cutting

Cynicism

Disease

Expression

Eye

Falling In Love

Gentleman

Hands

Headache

Heart

Historical Novels

Human Nature

Idiot

Infuriating

Knitting

Language

Lasts

Loss

Lovely

Manners

Men

Might

Morning

Moving

Needles

Needs

Nice

Night

Nuisance

Organization

Oysters

Party

People

Perfect

Reading

Reality

Smell

Sniping

Speak English

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Quotes by Lauren Willig

Lauren Willig

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one’s manners.

But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning when my alarm is set for seven.

Gentlemen do so appreciate a nicely trimmed décolletage.

Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up one morning and find oneself bereft of brothers, parents, friends, all with the slice of an ax.

I know historians aren’t supposed to fall in love with their own theories, but I was head over heels about the notion of an entire band of female French agents, like a nineteenth-century Charlie’s Angels. Only better. It made the Pink Carnation’s organization look positively humdrum.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.

It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better.

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

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