"Write the book you want to read, the…" — Carol Shields

"Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find."

— Carol Shields

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18 Quotes by Carol Shields

Carol Shields has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything,…
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.
Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.
nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped…
In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out…
Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang…
Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish…
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody…
Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.
Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts…
Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been…

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