I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in… — Kim Edwards Beautiful Copy Share Image
You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate… — 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
“She imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was… — 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,… — Kim Edwards Control Copy Share Image
'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a… — 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… — Kim Edwards Father Copy Share Image
I think that it would be hard to find a family that didn't have a secret in it somewhere, and sometimes we… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The way we behave, our views and outlooks really have their sources some place. They come from somewhere. Sometimes we don't even… — 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,… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person… — Kim Edwards Acquaintance 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… — Kim Edwards Attention Copy Share Image
He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of… — 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
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
We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to… — Kim Edwards Father Copy Share Image
She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones. — Kim Edwards Age Copy Share Image
“For this is what I have learned, in my short life: do not act out of anger. Act from love or not… — Kim Edwards Anger Copy Share Image
She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness… — Kim Edwards Addiction Copy Share Image
“Paul, careening down the slide with his arms out flung, and Phoebe, present somehow through her absence.” — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“... the Iroquois take dreams very seriously. They see them as the secret wishes of the soul--the heart's desire, so to speak.… — Kim Edwards Dream 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 Book Copy Share Image
He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers. — Kim Edwards Secret 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
Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence. — Kim Edwards Absorbed Copy Share Image
There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“Dinosaurs drank this water, did you know that? Water moves forever in a circle; someday, little ones, your grandchildren may even drink… — Kim Edwards Dinosaurs 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
“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
Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too… — Kim Edwards Father 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 Dark Copy Share Image
That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him. — Kim Edwards Father Copy Share Image
...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge… — Kim Edwards Caverns Copy Share Image
'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 Change Copy Share Image
You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I think that the whole child welfare system has to be totally taken apart and built up again. Have an agency just… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
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