Carol Shields's Quotes

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

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.