Carol Shields Quotes

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

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

Men are portrayed as buffoons these days and I was trying not to do that, but men are the ultimate mystery to me. - Carol Shields

It was a very emotional time. - Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people. - Carol Shields

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

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