Helpful Quote by Mitali Perkins

“And even though her journal was just random sentences, she did spin stories in my head. The sound of her voice made dreams happen.”

— Scott Westerfeld

“her power of telling stories and of making everything she talked about seem like a story, whether it was one or not.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Stories help shape the way we see ourselves in the world. They help tell us who we can be and what we can achieve.”

— Nicola Yoon

“Lists, she thought, are the stories of our lives; they give a picture of who we are and what we do every day.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“The best thing in a girl’s life is a father she can count on.”

— Kristan Higgins

“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

“He was giving her the most important thing he could, the only way he knew how. He was a professor, a lover of stories,…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“She'd filled twelve notebooks and still she hadn't stopped. Indeed, the more she wrote, the louder the stories seemed to grow, swirling in her…

— Kate Morton

“what she did during her lifetime but in the meaning of her life, the inspiration she gave to others, particularly women, to search for…

— Andrew Morton

“Most of all, she went out of her way to provide them with the kinds of experiences that would expand their understanding of what…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

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

— Guy Gavriel Kay