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Book Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally…
- Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get…
- I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
- Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
- You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend,…
- I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.
- But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your…
- How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles…
- Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close their eyes, raise…
- People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
- I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.
- The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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