Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver with fiction

Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver

American novelist, essayist and poet

Lived from: 1955 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 8 april 1955

  • At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
  • What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
  • The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
  • Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
  • Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
  • Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
  • Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
  • People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
  • 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.
  • The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
  • Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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  • Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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  • Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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  • Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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  • Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
    ― Barbara Kingsolver
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  • What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
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