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 Copy Share Image
You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery. — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
Whatever we perceive as good in the world has always endured, and it always will. — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And… — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank. — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort. — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
“It is not enough to say you are sorry. You must utterly own the terrible thing you have done. You must cast no blame… — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making. — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
I have been ineluctably drawn to libraries ever since I entered that sanctum sanctorum. It was a place of quietude. In a world where… — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that… — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such… — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
If one mouse is a spark...then ten thousand are a conflagration. — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it. — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
