Barbara Kingsolver
American novelist, essayist and poet
Lived from: 1955 -
Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: 
United States
Born: 8 april 1955
Quotes 21 till 40 of 55.
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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Animal Dreams― Barbara Kingsolver -
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
Animal Dreams― Barbara Kingsolver -
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Animal Dreams― Barbara Kingsolver -
Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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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.
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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.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Homeland and Other Stories― Barbara Kingsolver -
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
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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.
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The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
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