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Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

Barbara Kingsolver Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Barbara Kingsolver
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
American
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  • 1
    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 out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer. Barbara-KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver
  • 2
    I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved. Barbara-KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver
  • 3
    It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. Barbara-KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver
  • 4
    Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off. Barbara-KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver
  • 5
    Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. Barbara-KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver
  • 6
    Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. Barbara-KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver
  • 7
    People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around. Barbara-KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver
  • 8
    Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. Barbara-KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver
  • 9
    Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent. Barbara-KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver
  • 10
    The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else. Barbara-KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver
  • 11
    The truth needs so little rehearsal. Barbara-KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver
  • 12
    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. Barbara-KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver
  • 13
    We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. Barbara-KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver
  • 14
    What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. Barbara-KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver
  • 15
    What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all. Barbara-KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver