The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing. -Barbara Kingsolver Time
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all. -Barbara Kingsolver Space
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. -Barbara Kingsolver Truth
You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm. -Barbara Kingsolver Imagination
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. -Barbara Kingsolver War
Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers. -Barbara Kingsolver Thankful
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. -Barbara Kingsolver Life
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. -Barbara Kingsolver Hope
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer. -Barbara Kingsolver Courage
My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head. -Barbara Kingsolver Morning
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. -Barbara Kingsolver Hope
Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers. -Barbara Kingsolver Courage
