Liane Moriarty

“I have a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter, so I write when they are at school and pre-school, or when I have a babysitter.”

“If he could just have one more chance, he'd act like the man he'd always believed himself to be.”

“People can do what they like in the privacy of their own homes.”

“Often I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't realize till the end of the day, and it's a horrible feeling to realize something wasn't just a bland statement, but was actually cruel. But then we're all capable of - of things that are breathtakingly cruel.”

“Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.”

“I remember thinking about how mothers were prepared to run into burning buildings to save their children's lives. I thought I should be able to go through a bit more suffering, a bit more inconvenience to give my children life. It made me feel noble. But now I realize I'm a crazy woman running into a burning house for children who don't exist.”

“She quite liked this aspect of her personality, the way her mood could change from melancholy to euphoric because of a breeze or a flavor or a beautiful chord progression. It meant she never had to feel too down about feeling down.”

“I'm thinking my next book should be set on a tropical island, which will obviously require days, even weeks of meticulous research, but I'm prepared to make that sacrifice. That's just the sort of dedicated writer I am.”