“Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.”

—Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna 

“I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written. ”

—Barbara Kingsolver

“Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up.”

—Barbara Kingsolver

“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.”

—Barbara Kingsolver

“Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.”

—Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.”

—Barbara Kingsolver

“It is waking up despised each morning, listening to the pulse of your own loneliness before the radio begins to blare its raucous gospel that you're nothing if you aren't loved.”

—Stone Soup by, Barbara Kingsolver

“Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.”

—Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna.

“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

“Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.”

—Barbara Kingsolver, from Prodigal Summer (thanks, alicesyellowdaisies)

“Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”

—quBarbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees
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