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Barbara Kingsolver quotes about reading

American Novelist April 8, 1955

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Barbara Kingsolver quote: "People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own."
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "People read books to escape the uncertainties of life."
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life. Barbara Kingsolver
Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up. Barbara Kingsolver
And somehow Hallie thrived anyway--the blossom of our family, like one of those miraculous fruit trees that taps into an invisible vein of nurture and bears radiant bushels of plums while the trees around it merely go on living. In Grace, in the old days, when people found one of those in their orchard they called it the semilla besada--the seed that got kissed. Sometimes you'd run across one that people had come to, and returned to, in hopes of a blessing. The branches would be festooned... Barbara Kingsolver
When my generation of women walked away from the kitchen we were escorted down that path by a profiteering industry that knew a tired, vulnerable marketing target when they saw it. "Hey, ladies," it said to us, "go ahead, get liberated. We'll take care of dinner." They threw open the door and we walked into a nutritional crisis and genuinely toxic food supply. If you think toxic is an exaggeration, read the package directions for handling raw chicken from a CAFO. We came a long way, baby,... Barbara Kingsolver
I should like to write my books only for the dear person who lies awake reading in bed until page last, then lets the open book fall gently on her face, to touch her smile or drink her tears. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most..."
Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least. Barbara Kingsolver
Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin, see it in your mind’s eye and smell it with your mind’s nose! But forming these images from the printed page is a skill you have to develop when you’re fairly young, I think, or else it’s very difficult to read for pleasure later on. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "I vow I shall give all my very best books to the..."
I vow I shall give all my very best books to the underprivileged, once I have read them Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd..."
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written. Barbara Kingsolver
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. Barbara Kingsolver
You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist history rather than a spectator" Father Fernando Cardenal Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook..."
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please. Barbara Kingsolver
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want. Barbara Kingsolver

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