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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.

Barbara Kingsolver

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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Real School Writing
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Real Thinking Writing
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Rise Above Rising Talking
There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Home Moon Stars
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Funny Life Running
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Balance Injury Success
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Kindness Simple Want
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Determine Used World
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Believe Heart Kids
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking

Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.

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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.

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