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Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
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Annapolis
Maryland
Impossible
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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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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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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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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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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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.
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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.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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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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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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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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