Kelly Barnhill famous quotes

There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.
-- Kelly Barnhill

#Stories #World #Infinite

That's the magic of revisions - every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.
-- Kelly Barnhill

#Hurt #Cutting #Magic

Stories have a tendency to seep across the shining membrane walls separating the universes. They whisper and flutter like the feathers of birds, from island to mainland and back again. They fall into dreams like rain.
-- Kelly Barnhill

#Dream #Wall #Fall

I do open endings on purpose. I expect a lot from my readers. I want them to do much of the work, because I believe that the story is built by the reader, not by the writer. I like having an open ending to a standalone fantasy, because it allows a continuing story to be written in the hearts of the readers.
-- Kelly Barnhill

#Believe #Heart #Purpose

Each of us is our own story, but none of us is only our own story. The arc of my own personal story is inexplicably and intrinsically linked to the story of my parents and the story of my neighbor and the story of the kid that I met one time. All of us are linked in ways that we don't always see. We are never simply ourselves.
-- Kelly Barnhill

#Kids #Parent #Neighbor

I love love stories, no matter how dark.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept… You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

Do not accept whatever comes. Do not accept whatever goes. You have infinite power. Exercise your choice.