Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWe’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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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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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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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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