Carol Shields Quotes

United States, Novelist
June 2, 1935 – July, 16, 2003.

Carol Ann Shields, CC OM FRSC (June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was 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.

Also known as Short Story Writer

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Shields
- People
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Carol Shields
- Life

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

Carol Shields
- Life
- Words
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.

Carol Shields
- Mother