Quotes by Michelle Richmond - Page 1

Some people have a gift for making you feel okay, just by the fact of their presence.
Michelle Richmond / Novelist
Facts
Okay
People
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To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.
Michelle Richmond / Novelist
Academic
Degrees
Writing
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But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.
Michelle Richmond / Novelist
Emergencies
Feet
Neat
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A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.
Michelle Richmond / Novelist
Doe
Listening
Stories
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With Amaryllis in Blueberry, Christina Meldrum has woven a beautifully layered, intensely emotional story, with unforgettable characters whose voices will remain with you long after their secrets have been revealed.
Michelle Richmond / Novelist
Character
Emotional
Voice
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It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character.
Michelle Richmond / Novelist
Character
Stories
Thinking
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...You find a way, somehow to get through the most horrible things, things you think would kill you. You find a way and you move through the days, one by one, in shock, in despair, but you move. The days pass, one after the other, and you go along with them - occasionally stunned, and not entirely relieved, to find that you are still alive.
Michelle Richmond / Novelist
Despair
Moving
Thinking
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I have a hunch that our obsession with photography arises from an unspoken pessimism; it is our nature to believe the good things will not last. . . But photos provide a false sense of security> like our flawed memory, they are guaranteed to fade. . . . We take photographs in order to remember, but it is in the nature of a photograph to forget (pg 157)
Michelle Richmond / Novelist
Believe
Memories
Photography
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Every story is flawed, every story is subject to change. Even after it is set down to print, between covers of a book, a story is not immune to alteration. People can go on telling it in their own way, remembering it the way they want. And in each telling the ending may change, or even the beginning. Inevitably, in some cases it will be worse, and in others it just might be better. A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.
Michelle Richmond / Novelist
Book
Listening
People
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We take pictures because we can't accept that everything passes, we can't accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility. We wage a monotonous war against our own impending deaths, against time that turns children into that other, lesser species: adults. We take pictures because we know we will forget. We will forget the week, the day, the hour. We will forget when we were happiest. We take pictures out of pride, a desire to have the best of ourselve preserved. We fear that we will die and others will not know we lived.
Michelle Richmond / Novelist
War
Children
Pride
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