Different Quote by Sarah Addison Allen

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with…

— Dean Koontz

He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand.

— Sarah Addison Allen

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.

— Markus Zusak

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

“-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

“He searched her face for the hint of compassion. It wasn’t there. She had never written a word of fiction in her life. Why…

— James A. Newman

What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words…

— Marguerite Duras

trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly.

— Cassandra Clare

She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up…

— Haruki Murakami

“It was like skimming through a novel without fully engaging with the story until a well-turned phrase or powerful bit of imagery snagged her…

— Karen Witemeyer

“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