Lisa Lynch

“See, this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God's sake. And you know why we were told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wildness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad of what they'd allowed to wither in themselves.”
― Robert McCammon

“To tell stories of the past to children who walk into the future is a task both noble and taxing.”
― Indra Das, The Devourers

“Bravado may feel like a shield, but when you're telling yourself lies, it becomes a prison.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“I could do without Oprah, but a life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is... like a life without pictures.”
― Stephen King