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Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Impossible
Wrong
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.
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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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I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.
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I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.
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... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.
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Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past
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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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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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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes.
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The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.
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The past is all we know of the future.
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I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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