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Work Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
- I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
- 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…
- Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds…
- I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
- I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are…
- In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job…
- 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,…
- ...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here…
- I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God…
- 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…
- Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things…
- Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work…
- I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent…
- Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
- This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it…
- Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds…
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