Erin Morgenstern Quotes

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Erin Morgenstern

Profession : Writer

Birth : July 8, 1978

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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I have absurdly vivid dreams.

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

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I thought a circus environment would be an interesting venue to explore, where you didn't just have one tent with three rings and a show going on but where you could explore different things in different tents.

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I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like all that old school, bloody, 'Brothers Grimm' sort of stuff. So you have all those shades of gray in there.

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

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

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

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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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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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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's a wonderful sort of feeling when people want to spend more time in a world you created.

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

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If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely write it all at once, though, so I could work on it as a whole and not broken into individual volumes.

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Writing in a near-frenzy is wonderful and freeing but, for me, it does not result in a nice shiny novel. Instead what I have is a mess.

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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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