Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort! — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Mi'ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Then again, do you have to be told every single thing about the world before you know it?” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus… Lily… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“What there is in this world I think is a tendency for human errors to level themselves like water throughout there sphere… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Before that I was a scientist. I did research in population biology. And that's what I always go back to, it helps… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Jesus was a more reliable backer, evidently, less likely to drink himself unconscious or get liver cancer. No wonder people chose Him as their… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“Lusa turned to Crys, her eyes shining. "That was a luna." Crys shrugged. "So?" "So? So what? You want it should sing, too?” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
