Sue Monk Kidd Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to brood over the chaos phase. In writing a novel, you really have to brood over a lot of chaos of ideas and possibilities.”

“In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the church of their owners, listen to selective dogma that kept them obedient and subservient.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in.”

“I don't go in search of ideas; I try to let them find me.”

“I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.”

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

“I like to have a title before I start writing.”