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Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves? (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you’ll be labeled a political writer (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can’t imagine what kind of writer I’d be if I didn’t have my kids (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
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 (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it’s because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
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 (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I’ve only found sorrow (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
There’s such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it’s like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss the pounce. One God draws in the breath of life and rises; another God expires (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread (Barbara Kingsolver Quotes)