Deedy Quotes

#1. There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#2. Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.

W. Somerset Maugham

#3. 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

#4. In '83, we went over to Amsterdam. I just remember people saying, 'Baseball's just starting over here. They're learning how to play the game of baseball.'

Mark McGwire

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

Carmen Agra Deedy

#6. Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom.

James T. Shotwell

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

Carmen Agra Deedy

#8. Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

Dante Alighieri

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

Carmen Agra Deedy

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

Carmen Agra Deedy

#11. When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film.

David Suchet

#12. 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.

Carmen Agra Deedy

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

Carmen Agra Deedy

#14. 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

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

Carmen Agra Deedy

#16. could die right here, right fucking here, and know I felt heaven at least once

Aurora Rose Reynolds

#17. 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.

Carmen Agra Deedy

#18. i am like the moon--
sometimes, full.
sometimes, black.

sometimes,
forever and ever alone.

AVA.

#19. It was a nice day, and I don't mean that it was sunny either. It was humid and not too cool, like winter was getting annoyed with itself and wanted it to be spring just as much as everyone else.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Carmen Agra Deedy

#21. Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

John Steinbeck

#22. When something terrible happens, how you react determines who you are from then on.

Lisa Kleypas

#23. There is a scientific explanation behind everything. Finding it depends on whether you give in to the much simpler supernatural explanation.

Abhijit Naskar

#24. 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.

Carmen Agra Deedy

#25. Charlie X)? Those were the hints, as far as I'm concerned.

Nichelle Nichols

#26. 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.

Carmen Agra Deedy

#27. Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you're in. I couldn't have lived alone before. I always needed someone to share my space but now I like being by myself. If I want to be with people then I see my friends; if I want a date then I'll have one.

Kelly Rowland

#28. 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