Carol Shields Quotes - Page 2

• I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.

  Carol Shields

  Mother, Thinking, Discovery

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• It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping: our lives are steamed and shaped into stories. Knowing that is what keeps me from going insane, and though I don't like to admit it, sometimes it's the only thing.

  Carol Shields

  Sleep, Breathing, Knowing

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• Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.

  Carol Shields

  Quality, Made, Genuine

  Carol Shields (1996). “Small Ceremonies”, G K Hall & Company

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• Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

  Carol Shields

  Years, Another Year

  Carol Shields (2008). “The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.236, Penguin

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• I couldn't have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of a personality. It was a kind of biological component for me that had to come first. My children gave this other window on the world.

  Carol Shields

  Mother, Children, Unique

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• So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.

  Carol Shields

  Selfish, Maturity, Years

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• The silence is perfect, and yet a torment.

  Carol Shields

  Perfect, Silence, Torment

  Carol Shields (2008). “The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.9, Penguin

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• In a long and healthy life, which is what most of us have, there is plenty of time.

  Carol Shields

  Long, Healthy, Healthy Life

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