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 KINGSOLVERSchool is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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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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Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
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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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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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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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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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