Carmen Agra Deedy Quotes

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• 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…
• Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort.
• If one mouse is a spark...then ten thousand are a conflagration.
• 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…
• Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will…
• Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.
• If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank.
• Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
• The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.
• 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…
• Whatever we perceive as good in the world has always endured, and it always will.

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