597 Quotes by Erin Morgenstern

She was only wrong by a little bit and a little bit wrong is mostly right.

Names are not of nearly as much import as people like to suppose.

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

It is easier to be in love in a room with closed doors. To have the whole world in one room. One person. The universe condensed and intensified and burning, bright and alive and electric.

People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to.

I’m an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

Look around you, he says, waving a hand at the surrounding tables. Not a one of them even has an inkling of the things that are possible in this world, and what’s worse is that none of them would listen if you attempted to enlighten them. They want to believe that magic is nothing but clever deception, because to think it real would keep them up at night, afraid of their own existence.

I accepted because mysterious ladies offering bourbon under the stars is very much my aesthetic.

Do you believe in the mystical, the fantastical, the improbable, or the impossible? Do you believe that things others dismiss as dreams and imagination actually exist? Do you believe in fairy tales?