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
Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line....… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A novel can educate to some extent, but first a novel has to entertain. That's the contract with the reader: you give… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Before that I was a scientist. I did research in population biology. And that's what I always go back to, it helps… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
You think you're the foreigner here, and I'm the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family,… — 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
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
Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“It is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny… — 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
