American - Writer | August 12, 1948 -
I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others.
Sue Monk Kidd
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I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky and return 'disposed' to otherness.
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I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separation, there is a greater impulse inside us that compels us to read in search of the common heart.
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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.
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I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.
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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.
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'The Secret Life of Bees' was my first novel, so I had no process. I was flying by the seat of my pants, as they say, trying to understand how I, as a novelist, would work with story.
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I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped and said to myself, 'This is not who I am. I am not really a nurse inside. I'm a writer.'
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