937 Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.

A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars.

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!