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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Housework
Truly
Everything
Important

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For scientists, reality is not optional.
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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
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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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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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Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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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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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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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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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.
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