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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
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Annapolis
Maryland
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the first place - I usually am pulled in by some big question about the world and human nature that I'm not going to resolve in the course of the novel. But I'm very devoted to getting my facts straight.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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For scientists, reality is not optional.
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Morning always comes.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.
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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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It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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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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My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.
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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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