Ability Quote by Kate Morton

So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal…

— Gregory Maguire

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

— Tad Williams

“She adored fairy tales, yet derived great reward rewriting them to the melody of her own warrior soul. Her fairytales weren’t made of desperate…

— Melody Lee

“What she needs are stories. Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget. Stories come in so many…

— V.E. Schwab

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way…

— James M. Cain

More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to…

— Sandra Worth

“Unlike them, however, her path was not through daring deeds or the study of magic or the use of miraculous powers. She had been…

— William Joyce

“-why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any novel--to reading…

— James Hilton

She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she…

— Dudley Clendinen

Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

— Alison Lurie

“...she knew that in all stories she must be left out-the life she had made for herself was a life of flight, of discarding…

— Yiyun Li

She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of…

— Kate Morton