Camron Wright Quotes & Sayings

Crafting a plan is easy. Taking action will always prove to be the more difficult path. — Camron Wright

For news of the heart, watch the face. — Camron Wright

I don't understand. How does reading stories about others answer those questions for me?" "That is what I'm hoping you will understand - every story we read, Sang Ly, is about us, in one way or another. — Camron Wright

Parents are strange and wonderful creatures. When you're small they seem bright, shiny, and invincible. As you grow, that image starts to fade. It's a sobering moment, but the time will come when you realize they are not the heroes you imagined. They are just people struggling to do the best they can, just the same as you are.You will feel let down, betrayed, even ashamed. This is the time, ... when you need to forgive your parents for being human. — Camron Wright

William Shakespeare called dreams the 'children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy. — Camron Wright

Sometimes broken things deserve to be repaired. — Camron Wright

One of the first lessons that I hope you grasp is that woven into meaningful literature, so tightly that it can't be separated, is a telling lesson, even in stories as short as this one."
"Always?" I ask.
"Always!" she confirms. "Good stories teach! — Camron Wright

In almost every story, the fiercest battles often take place within. — Camron Wright

Child, unless you are opening a dictionary, you start at the book's opening page and you read the story through. If it's terribly dreadful, then just put it down and move on. What I will not tolerate is reading ahead. It's not fair to the reader or to the author. If they meant to have their books read backwards, they would surely have written them that way! — Camron Wright

Follow your dreams, make your best choices, and peace will come as you realize that you are on the best path for yourself. — Camron Wright

It's dangerous because my thoughts get away from themselves. Mixed with emotion, they pile up like the garbage that surrounds me. They stack layer upon layer, deeper and deeper, month after month- crushing, festering, smoldering. One day something is certain to combust. — Camron Wright

Grandfather had a saying: If you know a lot, know enough to make people respect you. If you are stupid, be stupid enough so they can pity you. — Camron Wright

Words provide a voice to our deepest feelings. I tell you, words have started and stopped wars. Words have built and lost fortunes. Words have saved and taken lives. Words have won and lost great kingdoms. Even Buddha said, 'Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. — Camron Wright

If people realized someone would be sorting through their trash, would they be more careful in what they throw away? — Camron Wright

Life will not always be so hard or cruel. Our difficulties are but a moment. — Camron Wright

People only go to the places they have visited first in their minds. — Camron Wright

Our trials, our troubles, our demons, our angels - we reenact them because these stories explain our lives. Literature's lessons repeat because they echo from deeper places. They touch a chord in our soul because they're notes we've already heard played. Plots repeat because, from the birth of man, they explore the reasons for our being. Stories teach us to not give up hope because there are times in our own journey when we mustn't give up hope. They teach endurance because in our lives we are meant to endure. They carry messages that are older than the words themselves, messages that reach beyond the page. — Camron Wright

...there's goodness and purpose and reason out there. Believe it, embrace it, trust it. Life will always be hard, but if we do our best, if we persist, we can make a difference---and good will win out over evil, love will conquer hate... — Camron Wright

Don't we all choose to live in the dump in certain aspects of our lives? — Camron Wright

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts. — Camron Wright

If you are going to do wrong, at least make sure you don't get fat from it. — Camron Wright

Her biggest fault - perplexing to this day - is that Mother loves to pick trash. "Its an adventure", she says. "You never know what surprises you'll find — Camron Wright

Two things happen when you get to be old. One, you gather experience and knowledge. You learn from your mistakes, and thereby offer wisdom to others. The second thing that happens is that you grow forgetful, ornery and senile, and when you offer advice, well, you sometimes just don't know what you're talking about. Often it's hard for everyone-including me-to know the difference. — Camron Wright

But as a wise and great teacher once explained so patiently, all good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling-these stories always contain truth. — Camron Wright

We all want to have a happy ending. A lot of times in life, sometimes you do and sometimes it feels like you don't. But you could argue if it is not a happy ending yet, maybe you are just in the middle of your story. — Camron Wright

The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb — Camron Wright

It took me the entire day watching the sun plod across the sky, but Lord Shiva helped me understand that my only journey of concern was to be like the sun, to make it through the day offering as much light and warmth and consistency for others as I could -- one single day. Each day. That was all.' She drew a steadied breath. 'So from that day on, I have continued to get up in the morning and offer that light, as much as I am able, in my own small way.' -The Orphan Keeper — Camron Wright

Of all the stories I have read about heroes, and all that I could ever read, of one thing I'm certain-he is mine. — Camron Wright

Peace is a product of both patience and persistence. — Camron Wright

I don't know if it becomes literature ... I just know the two added words cause me to look at the ordinary sentences differently. And quite honestly, I find that to be magical! — Camron Wright

I tell Ki that I'm learning about words and stories to help our family. He says he's protecting our family with his knife. Who is right? Which is best, protecting with words or with his knife?"
She is instant, certain, and solemn, and there is no misunderstanding her meaning.
"Fight ignorance with words. Fight evil with your knife. Tell you husband, Ki, that he is right. — Camron Wright

Rain in the dump makes water filthy. Rain in the garden cleanses. — Camron Wright

At times I think I can hear my brain screaming, I am reading here, so please, all other body parts, do your best to keep up! — Camron Wright

While almost everything that surrounds us in life gets old and wears out, stories, like our very souls, don't age. — Camron Wright

I distance myself from heaven and then complain that heaven is distant. — Camron Wright

You're anxious to jump into the river, but you haven't checked to see if the water is deep enough."
I don't bother pretending. "Sopeap, you speak in riddles. What are you saying?"
"I'm saying that life at the dump has limitations, but it serves a plate of predictability. Stung Meanchey offers boundaries. There are dangers, but they are understood, accepted, and managed. When we step out of that world, we enter an area of unknown. I'm questioning if you are ready. Everyone loves adventure, Sang Ly, when they know how the story ends. In life, however, our own endings are never as perfect. — Camron Wright

I try to sleep myself, but my occupied mind is holding my tired body hostage. — Camron Wright

But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two are forced to work together-and, quite frankly, they often don't get along. — Camron Wright

I have been quiet today because fear in my heart has been fighting with frustration in my brain, leaving little energy for my mouth. — Camron Wright

Just as ants do when their nest is disturbed, we return, survey the damage, and then without hesitation immediately get to work rebuilding. — Camron Wright

Just when we think we have our own stories figured out, heroes arise in the most unexpected places. — Camron Wright

Believing isnot enough, Sang Ly. If you want to resurrect hope, doing is the most important. Can you do these things? — Camron Wright

Sang Ly, we are literature-our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing not only to make a difference today but to see what is possible for tomorrow. Literature has been called a handbook for the art of being human. — Camron Wright

We can't claim heaven as our own if we are just going to sit under it. — Camron Wright

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside
and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment. — Camron Wright

The vain woman spent fortunes seeking out astrologers, sorcerers, and magicians who would concoct spells and potions to preserve her beauty and help her remain looking young--but envy is hard to cover. — Camron Wright

Good stories teach! — Camron Wright

Worry in the dark can make it even darker. — Camron Wright

But I hope reading will give him something to look forward to, a reason to fight. I want to believe reading will fill him with courage. — Camron Wright

Buddha said, 'Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.' Do — Camron Wright

Sang Ly, the desire to believe, to look forward to better days, to want them, to expect them-it seems to be ingrained in our being. Whether we like it or not, hope is written so deeply into our hearts that we just can't help ourselves, no matter how hard we try otherwise.we love the story because we are Sarann or Tattercoats or Cinderella. We all struggle with the same problems and doubts. We all long for the day when we'll get our own reward. We all harbor hope- — Camron Wright