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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
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Annapolis
Maryland
Humans
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Fairly
Ridiculous
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Animals
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My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.
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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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If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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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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A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel.
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Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
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Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
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It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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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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I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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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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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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We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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