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 KINGSOLVERWhat you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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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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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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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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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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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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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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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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This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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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 writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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