I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWhat I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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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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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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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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I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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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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Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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