Writing

Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist

Writing

"Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please."

Writing Silence Notebook

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist

Writing

"I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters."

Writing Real School

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist

Writing

"Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true."

Writing Book Doubt

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist

Writing

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

Writing Artist Novelists

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist

Writing

"I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary."

Thinking Writing Political

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist

Writing

"I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science."

Writing Novelists Rare Person

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist

Writing

"I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too hard, surely readers won’t want to follow me here. A novel is like a cathedral, it knocks you down to size when you enter into it."

Writing Book Struggle

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist

Writing

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

Writing Political Controversial Topics

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist

Writing

"I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window."

Writing Art Real

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist

Writing

"He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions."

Writing Funny Winning

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist

Writing

"Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel."

Writing Trying Zero

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist

Writing

"My way of finding a place in this world is to write one."

Writing World Way

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist

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"I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit."

Writing Night Discipline

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist

Writing

"In fact, one of the things that I really love about literary fiction is that it's one of the few kinds of writing that doesn't tell us what to think or what to buy or what to wear. We're surrounded by advertising."

Thinking Writing Facts

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist

Writing

"If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic."

Thinking Writing Eight

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist

Writing

"The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want."

Writing Wall Ignorance

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist

Writing

"Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it."

Writing Book Long

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Barbara Marx Hubbard Author

Writing

"Behold, I am writing anew, through scribes on Earth who are willing to listen to me again with new ears, in the light of the present crises on planet Earth."

Writing Light Ears

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Aaron Hill Playwright

Writing

"Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between."

Writing Mean Distance

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Eddie Campbell Comic Book Artist

Writing

"I dont want to write, Id rather draw."

Writing Want Draws

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