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.
freedom power word
I think the word 'freedom' is beautiful, not so much in its phonics, but just in the power of the word itself.
maybe
I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.
almost morning unless
I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in.
bees grew lived
I actually grew up in a house in which bees lived in one of the walls, and they lived there 18 years, in fact, so it wasn't a fleeting thing.
grew town
I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.
degree nine nurse nursing stopped taught worked
I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped and said to myself, 'This is not who I am. I am not really a nurse inside. I'm a writer.'
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.
asleep deal dreams gradually great life occurred spend
Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'
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.