I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERGrowing 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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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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!
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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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