Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kiddis a writer from the Southern United States, best known for her novel, The Secret Life of Bees...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 August 1948
CountryUnited States of America
certain coming hook selective trying writers
There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that it is coming from inside out, not outside in.
almost morning unless
I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in.
grew town
I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.
fact given handmaid knew locking name personal sarah screening subversive taught
I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave and that her name was Hetty. The only other fact I knew about her was that Sarah taught her to read: They conspired in a very subversive way, by locking the door and screening the keyhole.
life noticed people tend
I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others.
I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality.
abolition broke race women
Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.
named
I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.
dog goes husband novel problem sends solitude swallow tends
For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times. I know it's a problem when my husband sends the dog in to retrieve me.
lilies purpose enough
And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.
wrong-things verge
The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage.
audacity sides
We must err , do so on the side of audacity
nice fall thinking
I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we've arranged life to fall in place.
tiny dangerous shattering
She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.