35 Sue Monk Kidd Quotes for You to Enjoy

Sue Monk Kidd

American Writer

Born: Aug 12, 1948

Life Me People Think Time Writing

Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart. Sue Monk Kidd

Truth Forgiveness Time Heart Strange People Some People Long Long Time Difficult Evolution Would Some Something Rather Long Time Ago Learned Overnight Than Die Forgive Happens Process Painful

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart. Sue Monk Kidd

Soul Heart Eyes World Opportunity Ourselves Plunge See Give Mysterious Through Bottom Empathy Most Identify Another Accessible Up Human Transaction Where Story Us Human Soul

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence. Sue Monk Kidd

God Creation Our Self Divinity True True Self Capacity Depths

Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the human soul. The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence. Sue Monk Kidd

Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and boundaries we create and how to make them more permeable. Sue Monk Kidd

Me Giving Important Pain Extremely Characters More Voice Boundaries Make How Want Social Them Create Explore Strata Marginalised

With pencil, you can always erase. Sue Monk Kidd

You Pencil Always Erase

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness. Sue Monk Kidd

Life Work People Writing Think Ways Memoir Some Seem Narrative Version Them Require Many Even Wholeness Need

I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves. Sue Monk Kidd

You Science Heart Mind Long Wolf Pressed Would Would-Be Find Something Fondness Both Like Most Read Hall Science Fiction Shelves However Historical Historical Fiction Wondrous Fiction Anything Story Hard

I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality. Sue Monk Kidd

Spirituality Big Our Way Ritual Put Big Believer Us Connection Believer

I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to brood over the chaos phase. In writing a novel, you really have to brood over a lot of chaos of ideas and possibilities. Sue Monk Kidd

You Writing Sometimes Chaos Possibilities Brood About Writing Process Journal Over Ideas Particularly Am Lot Itself Get Trying Process Really Novel Keeping Start Phase

I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer. Sue Monk Kidd

Racism Remember Cruelty Awareness Summer Vividly Never Drives Tensions Voter Same After Registration Racial Boiling

I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate your own experience. But of course, I always try. The main thing that I usually end up saying is to read a lot. To read a great deal and to learn from that. Sue Monk Kidd

Saying Great You Experience Try Great Deal Advice Own Say Give Could Writer Main Never Main Thing Know Learn Read Course Because Deal Always How Lot End Up Translate Much Your Hard Thing

I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts. Sue Monk Kidd

Life Thoughts Feelings Tried About Write Always How Been Experiencing

I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women. Sue Monk Kidd

Women Way Daring Find Always Stories Who Captivated

I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed every night. I usually get in bed pretty early with a book, and I read until I can't prop my eyes open anymore - sometimes rather late. Sue Monk Kidd

Time Morning Eyes Book Sometimes Reading Breakfast Every Late Pretty Prop Rather Kitchen Poetry Open Until Read Bed Get Short Anymore Early Every Night Night

Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the strangest one I've ever done. I created six large, separate outlines, one for each part of the book, and hung them around my study. Sue Monk Kidd

Time Book Invention Frame Back Hung Outline Outlines Wings Voices Part Study Around Due Time Frame Done Six Moving Them Forth Created Separate Sweeping Strangest Large Each Ever

I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab. Sue Monk Kidd

Dog Old Black Named She Lily Lab

Every writer has their rituals. For me, it's morning walks along the beach. And then, in my study I have a huge painting of the Black Madonna hung over my desk, and quite a few pictures of Mary around me for inspiration. Sue Monk Kidd

Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

No more Sue Monk Kidd quotes