I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEREvery life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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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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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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