Erin Morgenstern
Erin Morgenstern
Erin Morgensternis an American multimedia artist and the author of a successful fantasy novel, The Night Circus. It was published in more than a dozen languages by 2013 and won the annual Locus Award for Best First Novel...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth8 July 1978
CountryUnited States of America
Erin Morgenstern quotes about
natural-talent ability questionable
Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.
dark appreciate wish
Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.
secret wells sharing-secrets
So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.
simple long laughing
„I forgive you for stealing my shawl.“ She smiles as he laughs. And then she vanishes. A simple trick of distracting his attention long enough to slip out through the hall, despite the lingering temptation to stay.
destroying-me destroying asks
It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.
autumn thinking smell
The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.
writing evil people
People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.
gears clock
You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.
sitting feels trapped
I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.
midst difficult situation
It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,” Tsukiko says. “It is too familiar. Too comfortable.
seems
To be rather than to seem.
father names different
Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.
museums glasses ideas
Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they’re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they’re lurking in my shower. Sometimes they’re waiting patiently in glass cases in museums.
stories matter reason
Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.