160 Quotes by Kim Edwards

I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in a beautiful story.

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

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or your dentist's father.

I lived for two years in Odawara, a castle town an hour outside of Tokyo, near the sea. It's a beautiful place, and I drew on my experiences there when writing 'The Lake of Dreams.'

It's kind of a mysterious process, but something will catch my attention, and I'll make a note about it. I may even write a few pages about it, and then I'll put it aside, but I'll sort of keep it in mind. Then as time goes on, other things will gather to it as if it's a magnet, almost, and eventually, there's enough to make the story.

After 'Memory Keeper's 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.