Erin Morgenstern Quotes

I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'

I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.

When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.

One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

The world is not magic - and that's the most magical thing about it.

People think that they see, but they don't.

We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point.

It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

Failure to recognize the obvious is not a good characteristic of a leader.

We must look a long time before we can see.

When we feel like we discover something, we are usually uncovering or realizing what has always been there. The laws of nature are always present, waiting for us to tune in.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.