There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERPoetry 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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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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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Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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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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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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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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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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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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The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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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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There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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