People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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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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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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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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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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