People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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The 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.
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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