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Sue Monk Kidd is an American author known for her novels, particularly 'The Secret Garden' and 'The Invention of Wings'. Born on August 12, 1948, she has a passion for literature and writing from a young age.

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Famous Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time.”

Writing Fiction Novelists Writers Novels

Book:Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-daughter Story

Source: Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-daughter Story

“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.”

Writing Stories Remember Dies Storytelling Who We Are Bees Secret Life

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“I'll write this all down for you," I said. "I'll put it in a story." I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask me, but it's something everybody wants--for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.”

Ifs Knows Want Writing Said Matter Done Stories Wanted Asks Hurt Ask Me

Book:The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.”

Writing Moments Taste Pomegranates

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache for some unlived destiny. I wrote about the raw, unsettled feelings coursing through me, the need to divest and relocate, the urge to radically simplify and distill life into a new, unknown meaning.”

Needs Writing Feelings Body Destiny Becoming Betrayal Urges Stillness Ache Simplify Older Women Eerie Trepidation

Book:Travelling with Pomegranates

Source: Travelling with Pomegranates

“Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?”

Writing Written Needed Letters Mail

Book:The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it's writing a check or digging a well.”

Writing Wells Soul Able Action Force Genius Kings Empathy Activism Checks Empowering Spokes Gaps Drs Luther Digging Emanate Dr Martin Luther King Soul Force

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.”

Want Writing Trying Unconscious Take Me

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.”

Writing Heart Rooms Talking My Heart

Book:Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest

Source: Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest

“I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.”

Writing Feelings Journal Keepers

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way that would touch hearts.”

People Way Writing Heart Stories Inspire

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.”

People Thinking Way Needs Writing Seems Memoir Versions Narrative Wholeness

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

About the Author

Born: August 12, 1948
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 278

Books & Sources

The Secret Life of BeesRelated source material

The Mermaid ChairRelated source material

The Invention of WingsRelated source material

Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's DigestRelated source material

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred FeminineRelated source material

God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself LovedRelated source material

Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and FranceRelated source material

The Invention of Wings: A Novel (Original Publisher's Edition-No Annotations)Related source material

The Book of LongingsRelated source material

When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred QuestionsRelated source material

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