...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 RichmondTag: inspirational
To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.
Michelle RichmondTag: write college writer degree
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 RichmondTag: writing character writer critique workshop
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 RichmondWe 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 RichmondTag: photography-memory-immortality
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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
Michelle RichmondAs the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that every one of us is left with a false history, a self-created fiction about the live we have led. pg 163
Michelle RichmondSome people have a gift for making you feel okay, just by the fact of their presence.
Michelle RichmondTragedy, in its full and life-altering form, happened to other people.
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