Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolveris an American novelist, essayist and poet. She was raised in rural Kentucky and lived briefly in the Congo in her early childhood. Kingsolver earned degrees in biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona and worked as a freelance writer before she began writing novels. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a non-fiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 April 1955
CountryUnited States of America
I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.
restraint equals indulgence
The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
Downstream is always someone else's up.
When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
A flower is a plant's way of making love.
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.