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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWhy is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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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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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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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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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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Maybe 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.
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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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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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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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