I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“When mauma saw my raw eyes, she said, “Ain’t nobody can write down in a book what you worth.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
'The Secret Life of Bees' was my first novel, so I had no process. I was flying by the seat of my… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I think books with spiritual themes simply point to the deeper mysteries of life - to what lies beyond us, to what's… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The ultimate authority of my life is not the Bible; it is not confined between the covers of a book. It is… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The story quilt in the novel was inspired by the magnificent quilts of Harriet Powers, an enslaved woman from Georgia who used… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“She laid the book down and came where I was standing by the chimney place and put her arms round me. It… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Goods and chattel. The words from the leather book came into my head. We were like the gold leaf mirror and the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“With winter the feeling had deepened. I would see a neighbor running along the sidewalk in front of the house, training, I… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The mermaids came to me finally, in the pink hours of my life. They are my consolation. For them I dove with arms outstretched,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained the color of age.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Readiness for dying arrives by attending the smallest moment and finding the eternal inside of it.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“I sat at her desk and turned one page after another, staring at what looked like bits and pieces of black lace laid cross… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“There's no pain on earth that doesn't require a benevolent witness.” — sue monk kidd Copy Share Image
