Quotes from Alison McGhee

Stories are the way you look at the world. . . . stories are your salvation.

A kindred spirit," said Vole, "is someone who understands the deepest dream of your heart.

If you know how to read, you know how forever. You can't unread.

Clara Winter," he said. "You are a word person and don't ever forget it." He was right. He knew. He could tell. It's something that can be sensed. There's a difference between word-people and non-word-people.

You are wilder than you know.

Music is the refuge of the lonely.

Let me tell you that a girl of eleven is capable of far more than is dreamt of in most universes.

You might not believe this, but most witches are afraid of humans." 'Did she say…humans?' "Why? Because…Well… Humans aren't green like us. I'm not afraid, though. I've done my research. Here are the facts. Strange but true:" Most humans are afraid to fly. Most humans do not wear point hats. Humans are rarely known to cackle. "Nothing too bad, except, you know…the green thing.

Books? Books are sacred. Books are to me what the host is to the priest, the oasis to the desert wanderer, the arrival of winged seraphim to a dying man.

Exclamation marks kept stabbing out into the air after the words that I didn't want to let out. Stab and stab and stab, words and more hurtful words pushing against each other inside me, dying to get out.

Some witches, the very brave ones, are not afraid of humans." "And some humans, the very brave ones, are not afraid to fly.

Once words have been raged at someone, they can't be taken back.

We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If we could all pull it off, I think all three of us would like to do another.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.

I'm a big State Fair person, and my main goal is to eat as much food as possible, but I tend not to do the foods on a stick. But I like Big Fat Bacon.