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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Agent
Answering
Back
Being
Call
Child
Contract
Exactly
First
First Child
Got
Had
Hospital
Life
Message
Mother
My Life
Novel
Novelist
Phone
Saying
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Both
Capacity
Else
Empathy
Every
Lost
Meaningful
Meanness
Opposite
Own
Pain
Really
Someone
Spiritual
Understand
War
Won
Your
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Airplane
Engine
Every
Every Time
Good
Hard
Just
Just Do It
Know
Looking
Onto
Right
Stare
Step
Take
Time
Turn
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
About
Brave
Deeper
Embrace
Every
Every Time
Fiction
Go
Going
Here
I Think
I Write
Lord
New
Novel
Oh
Read
Readers
Reality
Something
Terrible
Think
Time
Want
World
Write
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Create
Empathy
Essays
Fiction
Stranger
Theoretical
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For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Always
Am
Been
Best
Dawn
Eager
Early
Get
Hours
Make
Me
Needs
No-One
Precious
Quiet
Something
Time
Up
Use
Wait
Why
Writing
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Another
Ask
Creates
Empathy
Eyes
Fiction
Good
Life
Live
Look
Novel
Person
Somewhere
Takes
Through
You
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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Attachment
Being
Character
Count
Enriched
Future
I Can
Imagine
Kids
Kind
Mother
Sense
Understanding
Ways
Which
World
Writer
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
About
Best
Best Work
I Think
Offer
Think
Work
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I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Any
Books
Bring
Expectations
Invite
People
Tell
Them
Want
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Aware
Depended
Grew
Me
People
Up
Who
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I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Because
Contemporary
Engage
Few
Fiction
Know
Novelists
Person
Rare
Science
Scientist
Trained
Who
Writes
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Farmers
Farms
Live
Part
Rural
Surrounded
Virginia
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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 working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Barely
Farms
Grandparents
Hard
Live
Living
Living Wage
Nearly
Painful
Parents
Particularly
People
Southern
Surrounded
Very
Wage
Well
Who
Work
Worked
Working
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Being
Characters
Children
Create
Cute
Defined
Developing
Dying
Fiction
I Love
Important
Important Roles
Kidnapped
Literary
Literary Fiction
Love
Plot
Precious
Rarely
Roles
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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Any
Anything
Commentary
Going
Never
Political
Think
Way
Writing
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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Central
Obsession
Ourselves
Owe
Society
Suppose
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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 each other.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Against
Come
Cultures
Each
Experience
Human
Human Experience
I Think
Interesting
Might
Most
Other
Parts
Sort
Sparks
Think
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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 each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Against
Between
Border
Come
Cultures
Each
Experience
Gave
Human
Human Experience
I Think
Insight
Interesting
Living
Lot
Many
Me
Mexico
Might
Most
Other
Parts
So Many Years
Sort
Sparks
Think
Years
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Accept
Big
Big Guy
Control
Dump
Everything
Guy
I See
Importance
Just
More
Now
Relief
Religion
Responsibility
Same
Same Thing
See
Thing
Think
Used
Your
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