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
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 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
Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in… — 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 love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Plot comes first. The plot is the archictecture of your novel. You wouldn't build a house without a plan. If I wrote… — 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 Image
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 Image
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
