937 Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.

If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.

there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy...the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.