Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
- The first sentence of a book is a promise.
- People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.
- Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community.
- When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
- I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against…
- It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
- What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
- When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another…
- It wasn't a matter of courage or dreams, but something a whole lot simpler. A pilot would call it ground orientation. I'd spent a long…
- The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live…
- Codi: So you think we all just have animal dreams. We can't think of anything to dream except our ordinary lives. Loyd: Only if you…
- The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go...…
- Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds…
- It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time
- The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.