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Sue Monk Kidd
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 have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character. Sue Monk Kidd
Love Character Writing First Intimacy Inside Dropped First-Person Affinity Person Being
Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers. Sue Monk Kidd
Life Family My Life Reading Part Were Huge Huge Part Child Storytellers
I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others. Sue Monk Kidd
Life People Differences Preserving Others Tend Through Most Go Noticed
I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book for felt communion, the bright largesse of intimately participating in the lives of other people. Sue Monk Kidd
Heart Book People Own Other Considered My Own Potential Write Had Participating Because Felt Self-Serving Begun Impulse Fierce Communion Novels Bright Lives Largesse
I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky and return 'disposed' to otherness. Sue Monk Kidd
Words Sky Other Some Through Self Open Return Reader Leave May Human Want Which Migrate
I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separation, there is a greater impulse inside us that compels us to read in search of the common heart. Sue Monk Kidd
Heart Sometimes Separation Believe Preserving Our Inside Pursuit Misguided Read Greater May Impulse Common Want While Us Search Compels
I actually grew up in a house in which bees lived in one of the walls, and they lived there 18 years, in fact, so it wasn't a fleeting thing. Sue Monk Kidd
Walls Fact House Years Bees Up In Fact Grew Which Fleeting Lived Actually Thing
All I knew about bees when I started to write 'The Secret Life of Bees' was that they can live in a wall of your house, and that they make this incredible thing that I loved. Sue Monk Kidd
Life Live Incredible Secret About Write Knew House Make Bees Wall Loved Your Thing Started
I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped and said to myself, 'This is not who I am. I am not really a nurse inside. I'm a writer.' Sue Monk Kidd
Myself Degree College Before Nurse Bachelor Nine Nursing Inside Writer Said Got Am Years Taught Stopped Worked Really Who Even
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