Amelia

“My books happen. They tend to blast in from nowhere, seize me by the throat, and howl 'Write me! Write me now!' But they rarely stand still long enough for me to see what and who they are, before they hurtle away again. And so I spend a lot of time running after them, like a thrown rider after an escaped horse, saying 'Wait for me! Wait for me!' and waving my notebook in the air.”
― Robin McKinley

“I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.”
― Robin McKinley, Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

“The story is always better than your ability to write it.”
― Robin McKinley

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park