Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.

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• Carmen Agra Deedy:

  I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from

• Carmen Agra Deedy:

  If you tell stories you love, you will never tell them with indifference - take it to the bank.

• Carmen Agra Deedy:

  Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary

• Carmen Agra Deedy:

  You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.

• Carmen Agra Deedy:

  The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.

• Carmen Agra Deedy:

  I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous famil

• Carmen Agra Deedy:

  I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one wort

• Carmen Agra Deedy:

  There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The

• Carmen Agra Deedy:

  Whatever we perceive as good in the world has always endured, and it always will.

• Carmen Busquets:

  My creative side is identifying all these great entrepreneurial creative people that come up with g