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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Takes
Child
Children
Every
Life
Minute
Seven
Minutes

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I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it's because there's something in it that we didn't know already. Not just information but really wisdom - sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience.
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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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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.
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I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too hard, surely readers won’t want to follow me here. A novel is like a cathedral, it knocks you down to size when you enter into it.
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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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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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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.
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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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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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I don't look like who I am.
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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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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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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.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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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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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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