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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.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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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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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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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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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
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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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But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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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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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Root out all the to be verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No It was or they are or I am. Don't let it be, make it happen.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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