Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver

"God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves."
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"God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves."
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
"What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness."
Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams
"I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book."
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
"Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky."
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
"If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread."
Barbara Kingsolver
"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."
Barbara Kingsolver
"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
"It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer."
Barbara Kingsolver
"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier."
Barbara Kingsolver
"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
Barbara Kingsolver
"Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers."
Barbara Kingsolver
"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
"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
"What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all."
Barbara Kingsolver
"Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own."
Barbara Kingsolver
"People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around."
Barbara Kingsolver
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."
Barbara Kingsolver
"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."
Barbara Kingsolver
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it under its roof."
Barbara Kingsolver
"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."
Barbara Kingsolver
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