Michelle Richmond Quotes

• ...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

  Moving, Thinking, Despair

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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

  Listening, Doe, Stories

  Michelle Richmond (2009). “No One You Know”, p.306, Random House

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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

  Writing, Degrees, Academic

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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

  Feet, Emergencies, Neat

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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

  Children, War, Pride

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

  Michelle Richmond

  People, Facts, Okay

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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

  Character, Thinking, Stories

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• Tengo la corazonada de que nuestra obsesión por la fotografía surge de un pesimismo tácito; es nuestra naturaleza creer que lo bueno no durará. . . Pero las fotos proporcionan una falsa sensación de seguridad: al igual que nuestra defectuosa memoria, su desaparición está garantizada. . . . Fotografiamos para recordar, pero la naturaleza de la fotografía es olvidar (p. 157).

  Michelle Richmond

  Photography, Memories, Believe

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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

  Book, People, Listening

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• Con Amaryllis in Blueberry, Christina Meldrum ha tejido una historia de hermosas capas, intensamente emocional, con personajes inolvidables cuyas voces permanecerán contigo mucho tiempo después de que sus secretos hayan sido revelados.

  Michelle Richmond

  Character, Emotional, Voice

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