Quotes by Kim Edwards

About Kim Edwards:

Kim Edwards is an American author and educator. Her first novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2005), is a New York Times Bestseller, and was honored with the Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award at the 2008 British Book Awards.
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It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.

Kim Edwards

She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.

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Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

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After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?

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All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.

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No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.

Kim Edwards

In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glimpsed her.

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William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

Kim Edwards

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

Kim Edwards

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.

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I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in a beautiful story.

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We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

Kim Edwards

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.

Kim Edwards

I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim from the act of writing.

Kim Edwards

The secret at the heart of 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter 1. Some of the narrative tension comes from that distance between what the readers know and what the characters know...

Kim Edwards

I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer.

Kim Edwards

'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.

Kim Edwards

There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover.

Kim Edwards

I swam across Skaneateles Lake, about a mile, when I was 11 years old. I remember feeling when I was in the middle of the lake that I would be there forever, and having no idea where on shore I'd end up. I made it, and I'm proud of the determination ...

Kim Edwards

I like clothes that are elegant and comfortable.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameKim Edwards
  • DescriptionAuthor, educator
  • BornMay 4, 1958
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters
  • WorksThe Memory Keeper's Daughter