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Trying 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…
- Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan…
- My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of…
- Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still…
- Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure…
- For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like…
- But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things…
- Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of…
- It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell…
- I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
- 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…
- Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
- Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is…
More Trying Quotes
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- One of the great thing that A Christian can do is to draw closer to GOD inspite of all the hindrances. I… — Pacifiersucker
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell. — Alan Ball
- Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all. — Swami Vivekananda