Sue Monk Kidd (born August 12, 1948) is a writer from the Southern United States, best known for her novel, The Secret Life of Bees. Read full biography of Sue Monk Kidd →
For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times. I know it's a problem when my husband... →
Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought... →
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... →
I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped... →
I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book for felt... →
I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to brood over the chaos... →
In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the church of their owners, listen to... →
I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.
A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.
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.
I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in.
I don't go in search of ideas; I try to let them find me.
I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.
Sue Monk Kidd (born August 12, 1948) is a writer from the Southern United States, best known for her novel, The Secret Life of Bees.