What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERBecause I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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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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