Erin Morgenstern Quotes

American - Writer | July 8, 1978 -

I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.

Erin Morgenstern

LoveFunThinkAdultGetBooks

I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.

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TimeQualityWorldStoryPossible

I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

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GoodStoryThinkOthersMoreThan

The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.

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PeopleBelieveReadingLovingHard

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

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I AmRealityMagicFantasyGrounded

I'm actually not a huge circus fan in the traditional sense, but I like a lot of the circus trappings of striped tents and caramel. I lean more towards Cirque du Soleil than Barnum and Bailey.

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CircusMoreSenseLikeFanLean

I liked the idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that it was just a trick, that something is all smoke and mirrors, but there's that, like, feeling at the back of your mind: What if it's not?

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MindMagicYouBackSmokeMirrors

I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.

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MyselfWritingMessyWriteRhythm

I keep waiting for things to get back down to whelming, but they stay at overwhelming.

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WaitingBackDownThingsStayGet

Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out what the story is... My process is a bit messier.

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LiveBookStoryProcessOutHead

It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.

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MeIdeasPaintingBrainWriting

Comic-Con was crazy, good crazy... Five minutes after I'm done, the cast of 'Twilight' is where I was sitting.

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