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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Work
However
Lambs
Every
Imagination
Delivering
Always
Waiting
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Farm
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Muse
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Sometimes
Farms
Midway
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Descend

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