Kim Edwards Quotes - Page 3

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• Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.

  Kim Edwards

  Writing, Discovery, Events

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• She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Addiction, Darkness

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.272, Penguin

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• He had never even glimpsed her.

  Kim Edwards

  Father

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.237, Penguin

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• The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon.

  Kim Edwards

  Moon, Familiar, Breaths

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.248, Penguin

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• Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into the air like stones into water, rippling the invisible surface of the world. Waves of sound, waves of light: his father had tried to pin everything down, but the world was fluid and could not be contained.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Fall, Light

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.401, Penguin

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• After Memory Keepers 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

  Daughter, Memories, Writing

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• Its 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.

  Kim Edwards

  Writing, Impossible, Things You Can Control

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• I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people

  Kim Edwards

  Father, People, Trying

  Kim Edwards (2010). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter”, p.406, Penguin UK

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• I love to swim, and I love being near water.

  Kim Edwards

  Love Is, Water, Swim

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• The Lake of Dreams grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.

  Kim Edwards

  Dream, Lakes, Years

  "Kim Edwards Talks about The Lake of Dreams". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. February 20, 2011.

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• He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl in motion of her own, this girl who had decided yes, a brief moment of release in the back of a car, in the room of a silent house, this girl who had stood up later, adjusting her clothes, with now knowledge of how that moment was already shaping her life.

  Kim Edwards

  Girl, Daughter, Father

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.258, Penguin

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• He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his palm, thinking of all mysteries the world contained: layers of stone, concealed beneath the flesh of earth and grass; these dull rocks, with their glimmering hidden hearts.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Heart, Thinking

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.125, Penguin

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• They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning.

  Kim Edwards

  World, Questioning, Distracted

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.364, Penguin

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