Carol Shields
1935 - 2003
5
Quotes
Biography
Carol Shields was a Canadian-American writer known for her novels, short stories, and essays. She was born in the United States but spent most of her adult life in Canada. Shields gained international acclaim for her novel 'The Stone Diaries,' which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1995. Her works often explored themes of identity, family relationships, and the inner lives of ordinary people.
Famous Quotes (5)
1
All lives contain several novels in potentia.
2
Writers and readers are all in the same boat, and they're all on this big sea together.
3
Language is a measure of our lives. If we leave nothing else behind, we leave our words.
4
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
5
I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it's not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context.