American - Novelist | April 8, 1955 -
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
Barbara Kingsolver
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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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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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.
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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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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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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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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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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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