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Barbara Kingsolver

The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Business Know Obsession Small Suppose Town
Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Dirt might Today
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.
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Hands Rain Strong
Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Grows Willing Wonder
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Artist Novelist Writing
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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Book Fall Rocks
I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
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Real School Writing
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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Father Heart Men
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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Borders Country Trying
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Believe Literature Should
One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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Fun Hopeful Positive

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