Liane Moriarty
Liane Moriarty
Liane Moriartyis an Australian author. She is the sister of author Jaclyn Moriarty...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionAuthor
CountryAustralia
memories party men
A red traffic light loomed, and Cecilia slammed her foot on the brake. The fact that Polly no longer wanted a pirate party was breathtakingly insignificant in comparison to that poor man (thirty!) crashing to the ground for the freedom that Cecilia took for granted, but right now, she couldn’t pause to honor his memory, because a last-minute change of party theme was unacceptable. That’s what happened when you had freedom. You lost your mind over a pirate party.
relief happy-endings cry
Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.
years lovely tupperware
All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.
sympathy condolences losing-a-loved-one
Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.
admit freely hearing life living love material ordinary time
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.
bland capable forms horrible realize sort till verbal
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.
attended ends goes possibly school trivia
'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.
good imaginary novel
The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.
commit count editing otherwise poetic pretending previous sit staring thinking thoughts time waste word work
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!'
cases cup flows until
Sometimes when I'm stuck, I really do need that cup of tea, or that chocolate, or a break, or a walk, but in most cases what I actually need to do is make myself keep writing until it flows again.
driving gets taking
My real thinking and planning gets done when I'm doing something else like driving or walking or taking the shower.
editor paragraphs polished suggest
It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.
school
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.
allowed fascinated helicopter laughing ourselves parenting run seem stop talk
We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.' When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can't seem to stop ourselves.