Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIt’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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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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.
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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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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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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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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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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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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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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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