Writer Quotes by Sue Monk Kidd

“Reading was a kind of freedom, the only one I could give”

— Sue Monk Kidd

Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.

— Sue Monk Kidd

I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.

— Sue Monk Kidd

A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.

— Sue Monk Kidd

I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it…

— Sue Monk Kidd

'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

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

There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Every writer has their rituals. For me, it's morning walks along the beach. And then, in my study I have a huge…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I sat at her desk and turned one page after another, staring at what looked like bits and pieces of black lace…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed…

— Sue Monk Kidd

We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate…

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

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

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

“. I was wishing I had a story like that one to live inside me with so much loudness you could pick…

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separation, there is a greater…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped…

— Sue Monk Kidd