People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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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.
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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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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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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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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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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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