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A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
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Annapolis
Maryland
Doe
Right
Feels
Much
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Dog

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Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you figure out what you have to say.
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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
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Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.
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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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Root out all the to be verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No It was or they are or I am. Don't let it be, make it happen.
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I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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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 never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
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If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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