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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Things

Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Kids Two
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.

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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political
I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Expectations
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 KINGSOLVER

Things
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Out Views
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
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.

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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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Vegetables
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.

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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

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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 person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.

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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Lifetime Terror
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.

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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Eye Looks
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown

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Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Needs Pull Shepherds Ups
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Kids
The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Know Obsession Small Town

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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