Carol Shields quotes

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. (Carol Shields)
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. View quote
Carol Shields
Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find. View quote
Carol Shields
Open a book this minute and start reading. Don't move until you've reached page fifty. Until you've buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve. View quote
Carol Shields
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language. View quote
Carol Shields
nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music. View quote
Carol Shields
Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground. View quote
Carol Shields
Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose. View quote
Carol Shields
I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations. View quote
Carol Shields
I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people. View quote
Carol Shields