To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

- Michelle Richmond

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

...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, on…

- Michelle Richmond

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 …

- Michelle Richmond

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 alter…

- Michelle Richmond

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 monot…

- Michelle Richmond

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

- Michelle Richmond

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. . . …

- Michelle Richmond

But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.

- Michelle Richmond