There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“Rows and rows of books lined the shelves...full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of fingerprints and sudden laughter… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I love 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' but in some ways I think 'The Lake of Dreams' is a stronger book. I was able… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
It's kind of a mysterious process, but something will catch my attention, and I'll make a note about it. I may even… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share
Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share
My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were… — Kim Edwards Copy Share
“Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. —Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers” — Kim Edwards Copy Share
Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while,… — Kim Edwards Copy Share
This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired,… — Kim Edwards Copy Share
Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch. — Kim Edwards Copy Share
He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in… — Kim Edwards Copy Share
Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm. — Kim Edwards Copy Share
Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence. — Kim Edwards Copy Share
“Anything can happen. But what goes wrong isn’t your fault. You can’t spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert… — Kim Edwards Copy Share
Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet… — Kim Edwards Copy Share
“It's a kind of power, isn't it, knowing a secret? But lately I don't like it so much, knowing this. It's not really mine… — Kim Edwards Copy Share
After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and… — Kim Edwards Copy Share
