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Kim Edwards Quotes

American - Author | May 4, 1958 -

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

Powerful Admire Subtle Stories His

I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters if I'm not worrying about the logistics.

Time Me Know Places More Always

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

Me Know Never Out Take Going

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.

Powerful Place Know Sometimes Way

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.

Beautiful People Story Think Lose

You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'

Dreams Great Book Feel You Lake

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.

Daughter Myself Memory Space World

I love 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' but in some ways I think 'The Lake of Dreams' is a stronger book. I was able to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's all you can ever do as a writer. From there on you have no control over it.

Love Dreams Daughter Memory Control

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.

Life My Life Sometimes Things Though

It's kind of a mysterious process, but something will catch my attention, and I'll make a note about it. I may even write a few pages about it, and then I'll put it aside, but I'll sort of keep it in mind. Then as time goes on, other things will gather to it as if it's a magnet, almost, and eventually, there's enough to make the story.

Time Mind Story Process Attention

I think that it would be hard to find a family that didn't have a secret in it somewhere, and sometimes we know about them, sometimes we don't. Sometimes we have an inkling that there's something hidden, but I think that it touches everybody's life.

Life Family Think Find Sometimes

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.

Joy Writing Try Talk Write Need

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