BiographyType: Novelist, essayist and poet Born: April 8, 1955 Died: Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist and poet. She was raised in rural Kentucky and lived briefly in the Congo in her early childhood. Kingsolver earned degrees in biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona and worked as a freelance writer before she began writing novels. Her widely known works include "The Poisonwood Bible", the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle", a non-fiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. |
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and vomited everywhere.
A territory is only possessed for a moment in time.
There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.
a single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous queen. and, in reply, a choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. this forest eats itself and lives forever.
On the hill behind her crows flew one by one into the bare trees, arranging their dark blots in the scrim of branches and adding their warnings to the drear sounds of this day. Gone, gone, they rasped. Here was a dead world learning to speak in dissonant, unbearable sounds.
The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes.
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.
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