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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

Barbara Kingsolver

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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Real School Writing
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Book Jumping Magic
You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

People President Thinking
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Errors Limited Resources Spiritual
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

might Next Splits
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Else One Thing Somewhere
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Prayer Transactions
Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Animal Miracle Vegetables
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Cure First Kill
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Dream Rabbits Soul
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Dream Inspiring Running

A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

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