If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we… — 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
“If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
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 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
If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what… — 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
Height isn't something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you… — 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
If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of… — 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
It's as if cats live in a seperate universe that takes up the same space as ours, but is full of facinating… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the… — 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
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
