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
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
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people. — 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
I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. They have… — 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
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
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
Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most… — 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
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
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
A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't.… — 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
In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a… — 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 in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that.… — 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
Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar.… — 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
