If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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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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Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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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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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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