937 Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.

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.

This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.

Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.

Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It's more like conversation, raising new questions and moving you to answer them for yourself.