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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.

Barbara Kingsolver

I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Character Grief Writing
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Animal Average Vacation
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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Ethics Waiting Work Writing
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Before Human Unnoticed World
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Dream Hope Life Lesson
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Feelings People Sweaters
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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Basketball Girl Nice
We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Believe Literature Should
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Animal Born Mammals
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible

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