My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERDownstream is always someone else’s up.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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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 learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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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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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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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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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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