Top 52 Isobelle Carmody Quotes
#1. First and foremost, I'm an oral storyteller - I'll make a poetic choice over a grammatical choice every single time.
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#2. Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.
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#3. The best fantasy does not offer an answer to our lives, it is an offering that acknowledges enough of the truth to resonate and add to the understanding about the human condition.
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#4. It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.
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#5. I do see, in some younger writers, elements and things that I have used - and I am very touched and flattered because I am part of a tapestry that is being absorbed by authors.
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#6. Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.
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#7. The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.
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#8. It came to me then, like a chilly draught from an unseen gap, that I had always known in my deepest heart that it would be like this, a slipping away from a life full of people I had come to love, in a place I had helped to shape, in a land I had helped to free.
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#9. Fools blow air out of their mouths as often as their bums, and either way it causes a stink and comes to nothing.
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#10. Whole time. Partway through the night he began to keep so ostentatiously
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#11. Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world?
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#12. Mama, don't take him. We need him,' Jack whispered. 'Please. He will not forget you if you let him stay with us. He will love you for ever and every time he laughs, he will remember how you once laughed ...
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#13. The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author.
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#14. The thing is, fairytales were once a very gritty way for people to dialogue about aspects of life.
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#15. Some foolish people must have a tragedy, for they cannot believe in happy endings
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#16. It would be a simple matter if lives were lived by hindsight,' Rushton said. 'There is much we would not begin, if we could see how it would end.
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#17. We were passing the city cemetery. Adjoining it was a field occupied only by a couple of amiable and moth-eaten horses, and a grey tower. I asked what the tower was for. My grandfather answered that it held a giant's arm.
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#18. The worst predijudice is unknowing. We think we treat others as equals, but, in our deepest heart, we regard ourselves as superior. In part, this is because we are, in ways, powerful. But that does not make the race of humans (funanga) better than that of the dog or equine.
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#19. The first audience that you have when writing a book is you.
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#20. All through university years, I used to come up to Melbourne, go to Pizza Napoli with my friends and then to a movie.
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#21. I believe excellent fantasy reflects us all, and yes, it can use those myths that underpin societies, our subconscious yearnings and longings, and perhaps our barren spirituality.
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#22. I thought of the transcendent beauty of the first panel, and tried to understand how the ability to create such wondrous beauty could have become so perverted, so destructive. With power, my mind whispered.
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#23. Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.
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#24. The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.
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#26. Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.
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#27. Once upon a time, if you wanted to talk about the notion of child abandonment, of a mother not being a good mother, that's built into the mother who sends the babes into the woods, and they use the bits of bread or stones to come home again.
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#28. Cracks especially. You have to be careful of the cracks.. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a winking eye. And if you fall through them, you never know were you will end up.
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#29. I heard you laughing,' Jack said. He wanted to say something about the quality of that terrible laughter, but he did not know how to begin. So he said, ' I've never heard anyone laugh like you do.
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#31. I don't believe in fairies floating around, and I don't believe in telepathy, but there are things I want to say that just simple real-life stories don't let me say.
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#32. If we know one thing from experience it is that oppression does not crush rebellion, no matter how it tries,' I told him. 'It breeds it anew with every tyrannical act.
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#33. I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.
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#34. It is not foolish to ask a question of the world. We of Vlar-rei make songs or our questions. It is only foolish to want answers.
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#35. What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.
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#36. Do not say only to what a child can feel, for do you not recall how powerfully you experienced emotion as a child?" ... "We do not cast childhood off like the skin of a snake. It remains within us, even as we grow. It is the heart and core of us
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#37. Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.
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#38. Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully
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#39. Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.
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#40. That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.
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#41. I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.
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#42. Strength without compassion is soulless and cruel. Weakness, too, has its place, for it brings understanding.
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#43. I wrote my first full book when I was fourteen, and that was 'Obernewtyn.' It was also the first book I had published. It was accepted by the first publisher I sent it to, and it was short listed for Children's Book of the Year in the older readers category in Australia.
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#44. She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.
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#46. It is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral point.
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#47. If human lives be,
for their very brevity, sweet,
then beast lives are sweeter still ...
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#48. If fantasy is done well, it has both serious content in a literary fashion and is a really good read as well - and children and young adults won't suffer anything else.
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#49. Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.
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#50. If you look at the body of any writers' work, you can figure out the questions that animate them. I think that is what real writers do. They don't tell people how to live or what to think. They write in order to try to answer their own deepest questions.
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#52. My heart belongs to you,' He promised.
'Would you have loved me when I was a girl?'
'I have always loved you. Even before I met you I loved the idea of you.
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