Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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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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.
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I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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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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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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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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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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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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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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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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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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