Writing Creativity and Soul
Writing Creativity and Soul
By Sue Monk Kidd
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About the Book
From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings, a book about the wellsprings of the inner life and the creative genius that lies in the unconscious: an inspiring and unforgettable guide to awakening the soul.
Part memoir, part philosophical investigation, part advice to aspiring writers, Writing Creativity and Soul is a touchstone for the spirit, a work of profound pilgrimage that will be of value to aspiring writers and anyone who hungers to lead a deeper and more fulfilling life. “If you encounter writing infused with soul, you know it,” writes Sue Monk Kidd. “It feeds you somewhere inside . . . our internal revolutions, our reach for our true selves, our struggle to write unsayable things with brave voices comes about through a succession of brief, amazing moments.” This is a book about writing that is so much more—an exhortation to dive deeply into the creative instinct, whatever form it happens to take, to nourish the imagination and cultivate a practice of attention to the mysteries and yearnings of our own hearts.
Everything readers love about Sue Monk Kidd is in these pages: the warmth, the fierce intelligence, the wit, and the search for beauty and meaning and wonder in the world through the sacred act of storytelling.
About the Author
Sue Monk Kidd’s debut novel, The Secret Life of Bees, spent more than one hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than six million copies in the United States, was turned into both an award winning major motion picture and a musical, and has been translated into thirty six languages. Her second
novel, The Mermaid Chair, was a number one New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a television movie. Her third novel, The Invention of Wings, an Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 pick, was also a number one New York Times bestseller. Her latest novel, The Book of Longings, was both a New York Times bestseller and a number one IndieBound bestseller. She is the author of several acclaimed memoirs, including The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, her groundbreaking work on religion and feminism, as well as the New York Times bestseller Traveling with Pomegranates, written with her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor. She lives in North Carolina.
Editorial Reviews
"Kidd is one of America’s most evocative memoirists of the spirit. Her new book looks back over a life of writing to explore the nature of human creativity and the urge we have not just to do something but to make something. Kidd digs deep into the archetypes of consciousness . . . . Memory becomes a box of precious finds. Kidd can write some of the lushest clauses in American prose. She can also write a simple declarative sentence. At such points of contact, writing thrills. But it can also heal the fractures in our lives. A gorgeous memoir of the creative life, designed to bring out the writer’s voice in all of us." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)