there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
BARBARA KINGSOLVERFinally, 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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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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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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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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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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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