Writer Quotes by Rebecca Makkai

“These were wise, modern children, and they knew: a mother could be a witch, a child could be a criminal. A librarian could be…

— Rebecca Makkai

“Because what it's come down to, after that whole messy spring, that whole tortured summer, all the time since, is this: I no longer…

— Rebecca Makkai

“I might be the villain of this story.”

— Rebecca Makkai

“He started Number the Stars before we were even out of the store. "The only problem is, I already know how it ends," he…

— Rebecca Makkai

“So here, patient listener: your soothing epilogue. Imagine him happy. Imagine him spinning in circles... Imagine his heaven, where he can float through characters…

— Rebecca Makkai

“And for what portion of human history had people even had desk jobs? Maybe the last four hundred years, out of four million? It…

— Rebecca Makkai

“...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were…

— Rebecca Makkai

“I could put a book in his hands, but I couldn't take him by the ankles and dip him headfirst in another world. And…

— Rebecca Makkai

“On my mental instant replay, I realized that obliquely comparing his family to the Nazis was maybe not my finest moment. He was quiet…

— Rebecca Makkai

“The whole damn century would've made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began.”

— Rebecca Makkai

“But here at Laurelfield, there was something more in the mornings, a buzzing sensation about the whole house, as if it weren't the servants…

— Rebecca Makkai

“Very few writers thank their mothers for keen editorial insight; I'm happy to be the exception.”

— Rebecca Makkai

“I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved. They…

— Rebecca Makkai

“Like a good American, I wanted to sue somebody. But like a good librarian, I just sat at my desk and waited.”

— Rebecca Makkai

“I no longer believe I can save people. I've tried, and I've failed, and while I'm sure there are people out there in the…

— Rebecca Makkai