Carol Shields
Carol Shields
Carol Ann Shields, CC OM FRSCwas an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 June 1935
CountryCanada
life stories life-is
The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...
learning records forget
It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again...
pairs trunks buried
Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.
mother thinking discovery
I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.
heart love-is nurse
A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.
adventure men weight
Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs?
loneliness weather rehearsal
The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals
light childhood certain
Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .
moving glasses lucky
Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life.
quality conversation made
Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.
years another-year
Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.
hard-work persons hard
It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.
perfect silence torment
The silence is perfect, and yet a torment ...
loneliness feels frightening
These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.