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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

Barbara Kingsolver

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Believe Heart Kids
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Empathy Literature People
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Moving Slides Tasks
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

Discipline Funny Things Writing
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Everyday Want Window
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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Book Fall Rocks
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
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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Cancer Depression Sadness
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

People Terrible Thinking
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Believe Deserve Luck

Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

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