Kim Edwards Quotes
Top 70 wise famous quotes and sayings by Kim Edwards
Kim Edwards Famous Quotes & Sayings
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She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.
I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer.
I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in a beautiful story.
All day she had been dreaming of the comet, its wild and fiery beauty, what it might mean, how her life might change.
There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover.
Paul, careening down the slide with his arms out flung, and Phoebe, present somehow through her absence.
A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.
Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.
I just couldn't do it- break all the rules. Blow everything up."
"The world doesn't end," Bree said quietly. "Amazing, but it really doesn't.
"The world doesn't end," Bree said quietly. "Amazing, but it really doesn't.
It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.
It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.
Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience.
I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim from the act of writing.
'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.
Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.
There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.
Caroline said easily, amazed all over again at this sudden facility she'd developed, the fluidity and ease of her lies.
Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.
You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.
You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'
He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.
Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.
We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.
It's my fault too. For a long time, I wanted to be rescued, I realized that. But not anymore. You don't have to protect me all the time now.
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. - Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers
Dinosaurs drank this water, did you know that? Water moves forever in a circle; someday, little ones, your grandchildren may even drink your tears.
And the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.