People Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

“animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

The happiest people are the ones with the most community.

— Barbara Kingsolver

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I think most people are the same. Until they’ve gone somewhere.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

People ask without wanting to know.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.

— Barbara Kingsolver

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

— 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…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“It is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

— Barbara Kingsolver

You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got…

— Barbara Kingsolver

You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

— Barbara Kingsolver

It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's…

— Barbara Kingsolver

When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will…

— Barbara Kingsolver

There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of…

— Barbara Kingsolver

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

— Barbara Kingsolver

What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you…

— Barbara Kingsolver

With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're…

— Barbara Kingsolver

You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. They have…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most…

— Barbara Kingsolver

But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that.…

— Barbara Kingsolver

there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

— Barbara Kingsolver

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