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
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Adah inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning… — 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
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
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go… — 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
My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a… — 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
