Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
- There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and…
- Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
- I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
- It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
- Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
- It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
- Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
- The truth needs so little rehearsal.
- We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
- People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's…
- After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
- As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
- Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
- I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
- I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
- I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
- I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
- I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
- I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
- It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.