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I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Make
Littles
Reader
Readers
Solemnly
Things
Reason
Laughing
Loud
Stove
Better
Turn
Plenty
Stoves
Little
Least
Cry
Delivering
Giving
Turns
Private
Contract
Heart
Whatever
Pages
Contracts
Every
Left
Laugh
Swear
Believe
Give
Promise
Burn

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If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.
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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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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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