Carol Shields
Carol Shields
Carol Ann Shields, CC OM FRSCwas an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 June 1935
CountryCanada
Carol Shields quotes about
thinking use language
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.
people concerned
I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.
selfish maturity years
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.
long healthy healthy-life
In a long and healthy life, which is what most of us have, there is plenty of time.
memories childhood fiction
A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.
fear dare concern
He dares not concern himself with the future for fear of disturbing the present.
loneliness feels frightening
These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.
perfect silence torment
The silence is perfect, and yet a torment ...
hard-work persons hard
It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.
years another-year
Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.
quality conversation made
Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.
moving glasses lucky
Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life.