A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERA writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThere was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWhy is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWe’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWill you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHe needs to go rub his soul against life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI 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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERLife proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERGlobal commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIt kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERTo think is not always to see.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERFor Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERPrayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERSchool is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER