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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It's more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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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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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
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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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it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
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it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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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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Morning always comes.
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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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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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Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.
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I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history.
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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!
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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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Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.
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