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
loneliness feels frightening
These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.
fear dare concern
He dares not concern himself with the future for fear of disturbing the present.
memories childhood fiction
A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.
selfish maturity years
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.
people concerned
I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.
thinking use language
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.