Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

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Sue Monk Kidd

Profession : Writer

Birth : August 12, 1948

We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way.

Sue Monk Kidd

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.

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I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process.

Sue Monk Kidd

My stories have a deep spiritual core because I have a deep desire to understand things of the spirit, but yet I don't think I've written these stories from any kind of specific religious agenda because I don't think that would work.

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I like to have a title before I start writing.

Sue Monk Kidd

I first saw 'The Dinner Party' in 2007 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. While perusing the Heritage Panels, which honor 999 women who have made important contributions to Western history, I came upon the names of two sisters, Sarah and Angelina Grimke.

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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.

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Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the strangest one I've ever done. I created six large, separate outlines, one for each part of the book, and hung them around my study.

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Writing in the voice of an American slave felt like I was biting off something very large.

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I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.

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'Traveling with Pomegranates' is a very personal, very honest story about my relationship with my daughter and Ann's with her mother.

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I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality.

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Every writer has their rituals. For me, it's morning walks along the beach. And then, in my study I have a huge painting of the Black Madonna hung over my desk, and quite a few pictures of Mary around me for inspiration.

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I feel like we need to be aware of the ways we use and misuse religious dogma: whether it takes us deeper into love and inclusion or it separates us.

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I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character.

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I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

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Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.

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I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others.

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