Carmen Deedy Quotes & Sayings

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

Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it. — Carmen Agra Deedy

If your religion hasn't made you a better person, then it has failed you as a religion. — Immortal Technique

The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making. — Carmen Agra Deedy

If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank. — Carmen Agra Deedy

Show business imposes its own strict temporality: no matter how many CDs or DVDs we own, it would still have been better to have been there, to have seen the living performers in the richness of their being and to have participated, however briefly, in the glory of their performance. — Larry McMurtry

Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort. — Carmen Agra Deedy

This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder. — Josh Lucas

Don't you get it? We are The Walking Dead! — Robert Kirkman

If one mouse is a spark ... then ten thousand are a conflagration. — Carmen Agra Deedy

If you want something done right, do it yourself. — Charles-Guillaume Etienne

Whatever we perceive as good in the world has always endured, and it always will. — Carmen Agra Deedy

You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery. — Carmen Agra Deedy

I was the ladies' man in school. I always had friends; people looked up to me. — Marques Houston

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

A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness. — E. M. Forster

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

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

I am my own reflection
But when I look at me
I can see your affliction — Munia Khan

Life's bruises demythologise us all. The earth gapes. — Salman Rushdie

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

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

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

It is not enough to say you are sorry. You must utterly own the terrible thing you have done. You must cast no blame on the one you have injured. Rather, accept every molecule of the responsibility, even if reason and self-preservation scream against it. Then, and only then, will the words 'I am sorry' have meaning. — Carmen Agra Deedy

Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is. — Al Pacino