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I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.
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It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.
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It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.
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You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
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I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.
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There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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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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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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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.
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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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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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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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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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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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