Michelle Richmond

“I understand how families become estranged, not by design, but by embarrassment. You come to a point when so much time has…

— Michelle Richmond

“I never expected to find myself here, on the edge of the continent--childless, possibly jobless, with broken bones and a broken marriage,…

— Michelle Richmond

“I guess I'm just stuck on the idea that there's this monumental machine, and we're all part of it. Most of the…

— Michelle Richmond

“I already have a son One is enough? There was a time when I dreamt of having three or four but I…

— Michelle Richmond

“As the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that…

— Michelle Richmond

Every story is flawed, every story is subject to change. Even after it is set down to print, between covers of a…

— Michelle Richmond

Some people have a gift for making you feel okay, just by the fact of their presence.

— Michelle Richmond

“I've thought far more about marriage in recent months than I ever did before. What is the marriage contract? The general assumption…

— Michelle Richmond

“Technical speaking one is a beautiful number. One is its own factorial, its own square, its own cube. It is neither a…

— Michelle Richmond

With Amaryllis in Blueberry, Christina Meldrum has woven a beautifully layered, intensely emotional story, with unforgettable characters whose voices will remain with…

— Michelle Richmond

“Whenever I feel old—which seems to be happening more and more often these days—Alice tells me to imagine taking a picture of…

— Michelle Richmond

“History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.”

— Michelle Richmond

“I asked her to tell me what the best moment of her life had been Did she? Yes, she told me about…

— Michelle Richmond

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

— Michelle Richmond

I have a hunch that our obsession with photography arises from an unspoken pessimism; it is our nature to believe the good…

— Michelle Richmond

“Tragedy, in its full and life-altering form, happened to other people.”

— Michelle Richmond

“Marriage is inefficient!” she proclaims. “The whole construct is a model of wasted resources. The wife often stays home to care for…

— Michelle Richmond

“I expected marriage to be a door that we went through. Like a new house, you step into it, expecting it to…

— Michelle Richmond

A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the…

— Michelle Richmond

“Strive to be all good, but know that you are not,” I said. “Try to enjoy every day, but know that you…

— Michelle Richmond

But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.

— Michelle Richmond

...You find a way, somehow to get through the most horrible things, things you think would kill you. You find a way…

— Michelle Richmond

“We tend to see life as a continuum, but really, it's a series of phases, generating a series of different selves. You…

— Michelle Richmond

It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in…

— Michelle Richmond

We take pictures because we can't accept that everything passes, we can't accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility.…

— Michelle Richmond