The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe happiest people are the ones with the most community.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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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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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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The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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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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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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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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