All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in... →
Abbas Kiarostami
People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.
Sue Monk Kidd
I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of... →
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 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've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.
I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others.
Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.
When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.
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... →