Dreamtime Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.

— Marissa Meyer

“All writers must go from now to once upon a time; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile by the…

— Margaret Atwood

Once upon a time is now.

— Emilie Autumn

“Storytelling always changes time.”

— Stephen King

Once upon a time, began the story of you.Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns…

— Vera Nazarian

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now.

— Stephen Mitchell

Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly, like slumping…

— Michael Chabon

...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.

— Norman Maclean

“But it can't be true that he drifts from one reality to another, independent of the logic of time. This is not possible. You…

— Don DeLillo

“Time is the moving image of reality”

— Plato

All writers must go from now to once a upon a time; all must go from here to there; all must descend to where…

— Margaret Atwood