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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.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.
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I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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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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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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Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
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Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
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There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.
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Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
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The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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