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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
Heart
Remembers
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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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Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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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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I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.
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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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When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
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a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't but we wear it all the same
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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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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.
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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.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
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