Kim Edwards Quotes & Sayings
37 most famous Kim Edwards quotes and sayings (author). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.”
“I love to swim, and I love being near water.”
“Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe that's why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried.”
“The way we behave, our views and outlooks really have their sources some place. They come from somewhere. Sometimes we don't even know what they are, and yet they're very powerful in our lives.”
“'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.”
“You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or your dentist's father.”
“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.”
“After 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.”
“I lived for two years in Odawara, a castle town an hour outside of Tokyo, near the sea. It's a beautiful place, and I drew on my experiences there when writing 'The Lake of Dreams.'”
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