Writer Quotes by Kim Edwards

10 Writer quotes by Kim Edwards

Kim Edwards’ thoughts on the writer’s life are short and earnest, focusing on the emotional currents that drive her storytelling. Each quote offers a modest, heartfelt reminder of why we turn experience into narrative.

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There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover.

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I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary…

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William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

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I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

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After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the…

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I love 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' but in some ways I think 'The Lake of Dreams' is a stronger book. I was able…

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As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life…

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“Rows and rows of books lined the shelves...full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of fingerprints and sudden laughter…

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It's kind of a mysterious process, but something will catch my attention, and I'll make a note about it. I may even…

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“Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books…

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In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the…

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Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the…

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My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were…

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I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people

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“Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. —Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers”

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Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while,…

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This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired,…

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Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

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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…

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Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.

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Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

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“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…

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