Top 25 Kingsolver Books Quotes
#1. In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.
Brenda Ueland
#2. I vow I shall give all my very best books to the underprivileged, once I have read them
Barbara Kingsolver
#3. Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community.
Barbara Kingsolver
#5. 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.
Barbara Kingsolver
#6. I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
Barbara Kingsolver
#7. My favorite film score is the one Thomas Bangalter created for 'Irreversible.' The soundtrack absolutely defines the daymare-into-nightmare feeling you get from the film.
Richard Phillips
#8. I read as if time were running out, because technically it is. As I grow older I find I'm increasingly impatient with mediocre entertainments; I want books that will take my breath away and realign my vision - Barbara Kingsolver
Pat Williams
#9. Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.
Kelly Jones
#10. He's not from here, that's the thing," Cub said.
"Just because he's the outsider, he has no say? Should we not read books, then, or listen to nobody outside this county? Where's that going to leave us?
Barbara Kingsolver
#11. 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
#12. But are there books, books there are! Rattling words on the page calling my eyes to dance with them.
Barbara Kingsolver
#13. If people really gave it full consideration, I mean, like if you could return a baby after thirty days' examination like one of those Time-Life books, then I figure the entire human species would go extinct in a month's time.
Barbara Kingsolver
#14. What they didn't tell you about absolute power was that it was never absolute; the instant you had it, someone had already lined up to try to take it away. Princes could sleep soundly, but never kings. The ear was always tuned for the creak on the
Dennis Lehane
#15. Don't you miss it, any of it?'
...
'I couldn't say.' She thought about it. 'Not cars or electric lights, not movies. Books I can get if I ask. But walking around in a library, putting my hands on books I never knew about, that I miss. Any thing else, I don't know.
Barbara Kingsolver
#16. I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.
Barbara Kingsolver
#19. These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore.
Jodi Picoult
#21. The worst years of my life were the first two years I was doing standup. You're learning how to do, and you're going on stage in front of two drunks and people aren't laughing and you're broke. That's a really hard time in your life.
Bill Maher
#22. I have tried to teach my children to love nature as my parents taught that reverence to me
through example, proximity, and plenty of field guides and age-appropriate biology books.
Barbara Kingsolver
#23. I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.
Barbara Kingsolver
#24. You just read your books and go on a hundred miles away, You ignore me.
Barbara Kingsolver
#25. I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.
Barbara Kingsolver
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