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
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
Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of… — 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
“Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“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
“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
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
“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
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
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
