'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I hadn't really thought about this until 'The Lake of Dreams,' but I've set all my stories in places that are familiar… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl in motion… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters… — 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
You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“You couldn’t blame him, no, you couldn’t fault him for wanting to go deeper into every fleeting moment, to study its mystery.” — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
One of my greatest times of inspiration is when I'm traveling or living in a new country - there's a tremendous freedom… — 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
A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“It shocked me, the strength of the image, the desire I had to see if it might happen this way- though I… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“The love was within her all the time, and its only renewal came from giving it away.” — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“Around me the beautiful windows, connecting me to other lives and other times, to things done and also deliberately left undone, stood… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“It’s my fault too. For a long time, I wanted to be rescued, I realized that. But not anymore. You don’t have… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. —Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers” — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
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 Image
Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“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 Image
