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“Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.”
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Running #Hope #Morning
“Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group]. It did not make for a happy childhood, but it was excellent training for a writer.”
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Childhood #Training #Groups
“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Hope #Dream #Life Lesson
“I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently political." I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.”
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Grief #Writing #Character
“Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.”
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#People #Trying #Want
“Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.”
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Country #Trying #Borders
“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. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.”
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Life #Being Alone #Writing
“Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen.”
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Roots #Verbs #Prose
“It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.”
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Mom #Daughter #Mother

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