“The power of words is awful, Frida. Sometimes I want to bury my typewriter in a box of quilts. The radio makes… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“she considered a language that could carry nothing but love and simple truth.” — 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
“Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. — 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
