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A flower is a plant's way of making love.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Making
Way
Love
Plant
Flower

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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
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it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It's more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.
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If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.
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I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.
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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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Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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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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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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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.
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Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.
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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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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.
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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
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