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
I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me,… — 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
There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a… — 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
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
What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to… — 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
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
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
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
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
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults? — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me. — 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
