Ifs Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

If it's important, your heart remembers.

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

“If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.

— Barbara Kingsolver

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if…

— 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

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

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

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

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

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