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Isobelle Carmody Quotes
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The first audience that you have when writing a book is you (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
All through university years, I used to come up to Melbourne, go to Pizza Napoli with my friends and then to a movie. (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
First and foremost, I’m an oral storyteller - I’ll make a poetic choice over a grammatical choice every single time. (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
If fantasy is done well, it has both serious content in a literary fashion and is a really good read as well - and children and young adults won’t suffer anything else. (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
ÂŽIt is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist’s only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life. (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
I don’t believe in fairies floating around, and I don’t believe in telepathy, but there are things I want to say that just simple real-life stories don’t let me say. (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
What’s gratifying is that it’s my books that are being read and reread until they’re battered over the years. I love that. (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller. (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
Once upon a time, if you wanted to talk about the notion of child abandonment, of a mother not being a good mother, that’s built into the mother who sends the babes into the woods, and they use the bits of bread or stones to come home again. (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
The thing is, fairytales were once a very gritty way for people to dialogue about aspects of life (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
Many truths which are not believed are called lies,’ the Laughing Beast said. ‘Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been enchanted. Ordinary mirrors merely reflect what is revealed to them. People lie and mirrors reflect people. If your mother feared mirrors in your land, she feared herself (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
My heart belongs to you,’ He promised. ‘Would you have loved me when I was a girl?’ ‘I have always loved you. Even before I met you I loved the idea of you (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
Never trust a mirror,’ his mother had told him. ‘They never tell the truth unless you make them (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
Life has always been a matter of putting one’s feet down carefully (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
Maruman does not loll (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don’t allow the same kind of immersion. Often the best stories hold you back and make you witness them. This may be one of the reasons some people reject the form. That and the fact that they are harder work to read. A story will not let you get comfortable and settle in. It is like a stool that is so small that you must always be aware of sitting (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope is a dream. Without our dreams, there is no sweetness, no purpose to life (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
Don’t you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
Cracks especially. You have to be careful of the cracks.. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a winking eye. And if you fall through them, you never know were you will end up (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
The deepest wounds aren’t the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)
Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist’s only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life (Isobelle Carmody Quotes)