Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
Barbara Kingsolver
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Exciting
Vegetables
Animal
Ingredients
Start
Date
Heaven
Affair
Help
Leads
Intoxicating
Helping
Cooking
Ingredient
Another
Miracle
Recipe
Thing
Blind
Recipes
More quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!
Barbara Kingsolver
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
Barbara Kingsolver
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
Barbara Kingsolver
Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
Barbara Kingsolver
Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.
Barbara Kingsolver
It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.
Barbara Kingsolver
The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.
Barbara Kingsolver
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
Barbara Kingsolver
The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.
Barbara Kingsolver
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
Barbara Kingsolver
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
Barbara Kingsolver
The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.
Barbara Kingsolver
Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
Barbara Kingsolver
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.
Barbara Kingsolver
Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
Barbara Kingsolver
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.
Barbara Kingsolver
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
Barbara Kingsolver
No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
Barbara Kingsolver
In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.
Barbara Kingsolver
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
Barbara Kingsolver
