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Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Fish
Lengths
Fishes
Roar
Bird
Skulls
Writers
Swim
Paper
Onto
Words
Gotta
Birds
Stupefying
Length
Infernal

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Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you figure out what you have to say.
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.
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Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.
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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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God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.
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I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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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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Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.
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