Words are powerful. There are twenty six letters in the alphabet -- they represent 26
tools to create an endless number of words, sentences, paragraphs and books.
Sue Monk Kidd in an interview (Naples Daily News, June 1, 2015) had this to say:
"I think that writing can be a spiritual practice. To write is also to pray...It's about a
having a conversation with our soul. It takes us out of loneliness and into solitude.
To be alone with ourselves in the best sense of the word....."
"We are all creative people no matter what kind of work we are doing...We need
to give room to let our imagination play. We have to give it space to let it browse around."
"Our words matter, our language matters....(writing) is a radical act of trust....I have a very
sensitive response to injustice. I feel some obligation, almost redemptive, to write about it."
And from a January 2014 BookPage interview Taking Flight on the Wings of History:
"Historical accuracy mattered a great deal to me, I used it as scaffolding. I followed
the truth as close as I could possibly could, but I also invented a lot to bring them
alive on the page. I went to their house in Charleston, I walked up and down the streets
I thought they'd have walked. When I saw the stairway leading up to the upper floors,
I could picture Sarah walking down. I could picture Handful sitting on one of the steps."
Come join the discussion this Thursday at 10 AM in the Community Meeting Room at the
Clarkston Independence District Library. "The Invention of Wings" by Sue Monk Kidd.