Liane Moriarty Quotes & Sayings

“Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange.”

“Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I never received another children's birthday party invitation ever again.”

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

“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.”

“'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.”

“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!'”

“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.”

“I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think we're pretty much alike!”

“I'm not an outliner. I come up with a premise and then take it from there.”