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Barbara Kingsolver

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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Book Expectations People
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Art Bread Real
I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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Character Grief Writing
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Inspirational Learning Trying
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Dream Hope Life Lesson
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
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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Fault Men Way
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Civilization Kids Two
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Poetry Summer Thinking

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