World Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

— Barbara Kingsolver

...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Mi'ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Then again, do you have to be told every single thing about the world before you know it?”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

— Barbara Kingsolver

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently…

— Barbara Kingsolver

A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You…

— Barbara Kingsolver

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“What there is in this world I think is a tendency for human errors to level themselves like water throughout there sphere…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are…

— Barbara Kingsolver

In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus… Lily…

— Barbara Kingsolver

April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy.…

— Barbara Kingsolver

You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web…

— Barbara Kingsolver

We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as…

— Barbara Kingsolver

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best…

— Barbara Kingsolver

If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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