Erin Morgenstern quotes

Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that. (Erin Morgenstern)

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.

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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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It's said that All Hallows' Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

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And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.

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People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

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I think looking forward will be better than looking back.

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

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I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.

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Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.

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

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

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He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself.

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I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day.

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

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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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I have absurdly vivid dreams.

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Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

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It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.

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The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

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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. (Erin Morgenstern)

When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different - and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.

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Tarot is just stories on cards.

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I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

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I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

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Erin Morgenstern

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Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0

Occupation: American Writer
Born: July 8, 1978
Quotes count: 34

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