Barbara Kingsolver Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)
Barbara Kingsolver quotes and sayings page 7 (novelist). These are the last 8 out of 68 quotes we have.
“People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.”
“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.”
“Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.”
“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.”
“Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.”
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