Sue Monk Kidd Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.”

“I think the word 'freedom' is beautiful, not so much in its phonics, but just in the power of the word itself.”

“I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted to do. Writing is what I belong to.”

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

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

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

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

“When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.”

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

“All I knew about bees when I started to write 'The Secret Life of Bees' was that they can live in a wall of your house, and that they make this incredible thing that I loved.”