American - Novelist | April 8, 1955 -
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
Barbara Kingsolver
HopePeopleThinkPennyKnowWant
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.
ExperienceThinkInterestingHuman
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.
DogDreamsDaySoulPeopleYou
I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
WritingThinkPoliticalWayNever
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
EmpathyCreateStrangerFiction
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.
LoveScienceEyesControlWorldUs
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.
FunnyMyselfDisciplinePeopleMe
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.
TimeBestMeWaitWritingDawn
As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
MyselfAnimalThinkPlantAnimals
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.
WorkLoveDayStressMeControl
I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.
GoodArtPoliticalUnderstandFail
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.
PeopleMindMeSocietyCareDwell
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