Appreciation Quote by Masha Hamilton

“...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 read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager, secret and…

— Lisa Genova

“She hadn't written so much as a word of a story, but for the first time in a long time she felt she was…

— Paul Murray

“She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others,”

— Michael Ondaatje

“Everyone whirled around her, entranced by the stories in which they recognized themselves, but in the stories they were also more than themselves and…

— Francesca Block

“Yet the stories moved her. She couldn’t deny it. And they moved her in a way only *true* things could. It wasn’t sentiment that…

— Clive Barker

“She will prolong her life by the length of her story, even though time will wear on inexorably as she tells it, thus depriving…

— Elfriede Jelinek

“Stories help you understand your life, she’d say. Stories can heal. And I think she’s right, because why do old guys back from the…

— Deb Caletti

“I was worried that if I told her the story, she would identify with it too much. That her sympathy, however well-meaning, would make…

— Olivia Sudjic

“There are so many stories, she thinks, and most of them end up lost.”

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“Her entire existence is trying to figure out what her life is supposed to be while her heart breaks a little bit everyday over…

— Arlaina Tibensky

“Incessantly, it seemed, life plagued her with responsibilities, made her fall in love, ripped away any consolation she might find. Sisters and parents, brothers…

— Meg Rosoff