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Barbara Kingsolver
American
April 8, 1955
Novelist
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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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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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
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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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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.
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When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.
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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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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.
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