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Erin Morgenstern is an American author born on July 8, 1978. Her works are known for their fantasy elements and literary quality, with her most famous novel being 'The Night Circus'. Her writing is poetic and skilled at creating imaginative story worlds.

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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.”

Writing I Can Different Sometimes Use Brain Paint

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“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.”

Writing Found Paint Rhythm Messy

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“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.”

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Author:Erin Morgenstern

“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.”

Writing Ideas Sometimes Action Brain Careers Nice Painting Serious Helpful Hobbies

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.”

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

Writing Book Stories Order Complicated Composing

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“I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.”

Thinking Writing Challenges Novel Months Online Participating Novel Writing Binge

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“Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it's really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.”

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Author:Erin Morgenstern

“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.”

People Writing Evil Unfortunate Naive

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

“The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and symbols he does not understand at first but that become intimately familiar beneath his ink-stained fingers, formed again and again in increasingly steady lines.”

Writing Firsts Doe Book Courses Reading Lines Boys Fingers Familiar Symbols Copies Steady Again And Again Sections Ink Reading And Writing

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

“This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it down in fancy books that get all dusty with age has lessened it, removed its power bit by bit.”

World Writing Years Book Age Today Bits Secret Magic Teaching Fancy World Today Magic In The World

Author:Erin Morgenstern

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Born: July 8, 1978
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 270

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