Erin Morgenstern Quotes

When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has given me a way of continuing to post those notes, only a lot of other people see them, too.

I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.

Art is one of man's few serious activities.

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.

The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner.

Without dance, a man can do nothing.

For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

It doesn't need to be imagined, it needs to be written down.

Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves. None is timeless; each arrives in an historical context; almost everything, in the end, passes. But the desire to make a poem, and the world's willingness to receive it--indeed the world's need of it--these never pass.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

...writing is not a performance but a generosity.

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

I've always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren't moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration. There's great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.

In this box are all the words I know… Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made with these words. With them there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is use them well and in the right places.