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> [Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/silence-has-many-advantages-i-write-and-draw-in-my-notebook-and-i/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f9/barbara-kingsolver-200_advantage_silence-has-many-advantages-i-write-and_1623424.png)

> [My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/my-way-of-finding-a-place-in-this-world-is-to-write-one/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e28/barbara-kingsolver-200_finding_my-way-of-finding-a-place-in-this-world_2223313.png)

> [There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/there-is-no-perfect-time-to-write-there-is-only-now/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08c/barbara-kingsolver-200_inspirational_there-is-no-perfect-time-to-write-there_257416.png)

> [Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/don-t-wait-for-the-muse-she-has-a-lousy-work-ethic-writers-just-write/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25b/barbara-kingsolver-200_ethics_don-t-wait-for-the-muse-she-has-a-lousy_2245143.png)

> [I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/i-know-i-have-to-write-about-the-things-that-keep-me-awake-at-night/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f5/barbara-kingsolver-200_awake_i-know-i-have-to-write-about-the-things_2324427.png)

> [When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/when-i-sit-down-to-write-i-consider-myself-an-artist/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37c/barbara-kingsolver-200_art_when-i-sit-down-to-write-i-consider-myse_2194254.png)

> [I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/i-learned-to-write-by-reading-the-kind-of-books-i-wished-i-d-written/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94d/barbara-kingsolver-200_book_i-learned-to-write-by-reading-the-kind-o_304865.png)

> [Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/pay-attention-to-your-passions-they-are-the-key-to-starting-and/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05d/barbara-kingsolver-200_attention_pay-attention-to-your-passions-they-are_2131476.png)

> [I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/i-write-every-moment-that-is-humanly-possible-i-write-every-day-and/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a5/barbara-kingsolver-200_discipline_i-write-every-moment-that-is-humanly-pos_2432682.png)

> [Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/close-the-door-write-with-no-one-looking-over-your-shoulder-don-t-try/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4e/barbara-kingsolver-200_being-alone_close-the-door-write-with-no-one-looking_1909475.jpg)

> [Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/quit-smoking-in-the-hope-of-growing-old-it-takes-a-long-time-to-write/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f8/barbara-kingsolver-200_book_quit-smoking-in-the-hope-of-growing-old_2935717.png)

> [It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/it-s-a-funny-thing-people-often-ask-how-i-discipline-myself-to-write/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/298/barbara-kingsolver-200_computer_it-s-a-funny-thing-people-often-ask-how_1161499.png)

> [I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/i-m-widest-awake-as-a-writer-doing-something-new-engaged-in-a-process/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55e/barbara-kingsolver-200_awake_i-m-widest-awake-as-a-writer-doing-somet_436312.png)

> [I don't \*ever\* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/i-don-t-ever-write-about-real-people-art-is-supposed-to-be-better/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74f/barbara-kingsolver-200_art_i-don-t-ever-write-about-real-people-art_1112156.png)

> [Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/beginning-a-novel-is-always-hard-it-feels-like-going-nowhere-i-always/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24e/barbara-kingsolver-200_books_beginning-a-novel-is-always-hard-it-feel_2294877.jpg)

> [Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/every-time-i-write-a-new-novel-about-something-sombre-and-sobering/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17e/barbara-kingsolver-200_about_every-time-i-write-a-new-novel-about-som_2355225.jpg)

## Other authors on Write

## More by Barbara Kingsolver

> [“Jesus was a more reliable backer, evidently, less likely to drink himself unconscious or get liver cancer. No wonder people chose Him as their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/jesus-was-a-more-reliable-backer-evidently-less-likely-to-drink/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

> [Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/now-i-m-starting-to-think-he-wasn-t-supposed-to-be-my-whole-life-he/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

> [Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/cooking-is-80-percent-confidence-a-skill-best-acquired-starting-from/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

> [“In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/in-bobby-ogle-s-version-of-heaven-everyone-would-wind-up-in-one-place/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

> [“Weeds are job security for the gardener.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/weeds-are-job-security-for-the-gardener/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

> [“It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/it-s-what-you-do-that-makes-your-soul-not-the-other-way-around/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

> [“Lusa turned to Crys, her eyes shining. "That was a luna." Crys shrugged. "So?" "So? So what? You want it should sing, too?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/lusa-turned-to-crys-her-eyes-shining-that-was-a-luna-crys-shrugged-so/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

> [The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/the-strength-of-motherhood-is-greater-than-natural-laws/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

> [“An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/an-imperfectly-remembered-life-is-a-useless-treachery-every-day-more/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

> [Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/respecting-the-dignity-of-a-spectacular-food-means-enjoying-it-at-its/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

> [“Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/somehow-it-had-come-to-pass-that-this-man-was-her-whole-world-and-she/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

> [After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/after-the-poisonwood-bible-was-published-several-people-believed-that/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

> [I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/i-can-count-all-the-ways-in-which-being-a-mother-has-enriched-my/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/but-we-ve-all-ended-up-giving-body-and-soul-to-africa-one-way-or/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

> [If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/if-the-lord-hasn-t-got-a-boyfriend-lined-up-for-me-to-marry-that-s/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

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