I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERNow I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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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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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
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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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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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