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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Doubt

…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Summer Wings
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Greed
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Self
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 KINGSOLVER

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 KINGSOLVER

Rocks
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Everyday Window
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.

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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Vacation
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.

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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Pieces Stories
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
I 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 KINGSOLVER
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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May Salvation
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Automobile Feet Two
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Cancer Sadness

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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