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Carol Ann Shields, 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. June 1935 – 16. July 2003  •  Other names کارول شیلدز

Works

The Stone Diaries
The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields
Unless
Unless
Carol Shields
The Stone Diaries
The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields
Unless
Unless
Carol Shields
Carol Shields: 7 quotes1 like

Famous Carol Shields Quotes

“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”

Carol Shields

Source: The Republic of Love

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”

Carol Shields

“nothing she did
or said

was quite
what she meant

but still her life
could be called a monument

shaped in a slant
of available light

and set to the movement
of possible music”

Carol Shields

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

Carol Shields The Stone Diaries

Source: The Stone Diaries

“Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.”

Carol Shields The Stone Diaries

Source: The Stone Diaries

“Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.”

Carol Shields Unless

Source: Unless

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