It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERCodi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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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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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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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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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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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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Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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