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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.
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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
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A flock is nothing but the put-together of all your past choices.
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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, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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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.
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
Barbara Kingsolver
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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.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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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.
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community.
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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.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
Barbara Kingsolver