Carmen Agra Deedy Quotes

#1. If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank.

Carmen Agra Deedy

#2. Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.

Carmen Agra Deedy

#3. Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort.

Carmen Agra Deedy

#4. You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.

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#5. In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.

Dan Brown

#6. Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.

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#7. If one mouse is a spark ... then ten thousand are a conflagration.

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#8. He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge: that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter.

John Williams

#9. You will not experience all life has to offer you or begin to experience life at its fullest as long as you are satisfied with mediocrity. You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.

Eric Thomas

#10. There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now.

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#11. I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesn't hurt, either.

Carmen Agra Deedy

#12. Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.

Carmen Agra Deedy

#13. Whatever we perceive as good in the world has always endured, and it always will.

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#14. When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

Sally Mann

#15. I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family life. If I'm stranded in an airport lobby - I write. If I have to wait in a doctor's office - I write. If I have a morning or evening to myself - I write.

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#16. Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal.

Dalai Lama

#17. The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.

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#18. Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers, our infections, our rapid, minute mutations, which take us toward death even as they evolve us, as a species, into some ill-defined future.

Lauren Slater

#19. I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

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#20. I have been ineluctably drawn to libraries ever since I entered that sanctum sanctorum. It was a place of quietude. In a world where things go beep and ding and ring, where you've got mail and you've got messages, when I enter a library, I feel that I am still entering a temple.

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