Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Lou Ann’s life was ruled by the fear of salmonella, to the extent that she claimed the only safe way to eat… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for! — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“She is not a bulldog, only a woman pressed into the shape of a small jar, possibly attempting to dance in there.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Codi: So you think we all just have animal dreams. We can't think of anything to dream except our ordinary lives. Loyd:… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“We felt tired to our bones but anointed by life in a durable, companionable way, for at least the present moment. We… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is… — 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
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I am telling you what I’m telling you. Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Looking out on a clean plank of planet earth, we can get shaken right down to the bone by the bronze-eyed possibility… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find:… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Many bright people are really in the dark about vegetable life. Biology teachers face kids in classrooms who may not even believe… — 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
“Which makes you wonder, are they really speaking real words or do little kids just start out naturally understanding each other before… — 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
