"I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written."

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"I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written."

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"What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future."

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"I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe."

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"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."

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Explore more quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

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

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"Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky."

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"To live is to change, to die one hundred deaths."

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"This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden."

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"This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address."

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"Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise."

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"But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessness to give it, then we must accept the desperately sad verdict that each generation's hopes will die with it, and no cumulative progress is possible for the human will."

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"Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is."

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"It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself."

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"A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever."

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