Esther Freud > Quotes

“Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.”
― Esther Freud

“... a discovery you make yourself is worth twenty thousand things that you are taught, even if it is a discovery that everyone else has made.”
― Esther Freud, The Sea House

“Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story”
― Esther Freud, Etchings

“Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don’t let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won’t matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.”
― Esther Freud

“Occasionally I looked at Bea to see if she was running over those events like I was, the sound effects living their own life behind her eyes, but she gave nothing away.”
― Esther Freud, Hideous Kinky