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Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Blue
Classical
Compete
Dawned
Get
Hotel
Job
Kind
Lobby
Me
Moon
Openings
Piano
Play
Rest
Six
Trained
Us
Year
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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 - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Career
Control
Day
Day-To-Day
Domain
End
End Of The Day
Farm
Gives
Having
I Love
Keeps
Love
Me
Other
Over
Relief
Shape
Stress
Work
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Green
Growing
Me
Safe
Seems
Surrounded
Things
Very
Water
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
About
Controversial
Courage
Dread
Fiction
Labeled
Political
Politically
Some
Takes
Topics
Write
Writer
You
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Ask
Begin
Computer
Desk
Discipline
Else
Funny
Funny Thing
How
Leaving
Me
Myself
Off
Often
People
Question
Something
Something Else
Thing
Turning
Understand
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Always
Control
Eyes
Gives
I Love
Love
Outcomes
Over
Predictable
Render
Science
Scientist
Seen
Through
Us
World
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Another
Behave
Creation
Empathy
How
Influences
Literature
Necessarily
Other
People
Psyche
Sucks
You
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Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Baby
Book
Bring
Effort
Every
Like
Lot
Most
World
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Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
About
Been
Books
Community
Complex
Depends
Individual
Most
Ways
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Actually
Against
Children
Culture
Day
Everyone
Hate
Law
Moments
Motherhood
Our
Practically
Say
Those
You
Your
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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 words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Always
Because
Before
Begins
Desk
Dumping
File
Full
Get
Head
Just
Morning
Need
Pouring
Rises
Sentences
Start
Sun
Them
Too
Trying
Up
Wake
Words
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Construct
Discipline
Enormous
Nonfiction
Requires
Stick
Story
Terms
Them
Then
You
Your
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People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Always
Make
More
Novels
People
Problems
Terrible
Them
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Being
Brave
Courage
Deeper
Embrace
Fiction
Get
I Think
Never
Over
Read
Readers
Reality
Thankful
Think
World
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Change
Currency
Endurance
Life
My Life
Small
Ultimately
Wonders
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Been
Began
Country
Depicted
Easy
Fiction
Fun
Manner
Outsiders
Poke
Poor
Region
Ridiculed
Since
Situation
Sort
Southern
Suspicious
Them
Us
Versus
Very
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Cold
Dog
Head
Like
Minute
Off
Relax
Right
Shake
Shaking
Shoulders
Spine
Still
Stop
Tell
Voice
Water
Where
You
Your
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Book
First
Promise
Sentence
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The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Appreciate
Blessing
Childhood
Get
Lot
More
Older
Outdoors
Rural
Spent
Time
Which
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Admire
Distance
Figure
Hope
Inside
Least
Life
Live
Most
Out
Right
Roof
Very
You
Your
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