Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWill you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWrite 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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERPain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERYou can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERA dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIt’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERFor Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERYou know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI 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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERMaybe 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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe 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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERCooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIf you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER