I like to have a title before I start writing. Sue Monk Kidd starttitlewrite Change image and share on social
I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave and that her name was Hetty. The only other fact I knew about her was that Sarah taught her to read: They conspired in a very subversive way, by locking the door and screening the keyhole. Sue Monk Kidd conspiredoorfact share on social
Every writer has their rituals. For me, it's morning walks along the beach. And then, in my study I have a huge painting of the Black Madonna hung over my desk, and quite a few pictures of Mary around me for inspiration. Sue Monk Kidd beachblackdesk share on social
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 wholeness. Sue Monk Kidd lifememoirnarrative Change image and share on social
As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not. Sue Monk Kidd adolescentboycharm Change image and share on social
Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it. Sue Monk Kidd 19thabolitionbreak Change image and share on social
My stories have a deep spiritual core because I have a deep desire to understand things of the spirit, but yet I don't think I've written these stories from any kind of specific religious agenda because I don't think that would work. Sue Monk Kidd agendumcoredeep share on social
'Traveling with Pomegranates' is a very personal, very honest story about my relationship with my daughter and Ann's with her mother. Sue Monk Kidd anndaughterhonest Change image and share on social
I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character. Sue Monk Kidd affinitycharacterdrop Change image and share on social
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 communion, the bright largesse of intimately participating in the lives of other people. Sue Monk Kidd beginbookbright share on social
