Quotes
Authors
Barbara Kingsolver
"Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel." --
Barbara Kingsolver
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“I have found nothing stronger than Necessity.”
“Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless.”
“We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.”
Source : Twitter post from Sep 03, 2016
“The best cover letters I've read are from people who have a passion for my company, and can make that passion come to life on a page. The letters that make me say, 'Yes! This person really gets it.' Because, at the end of the day, I want to hire people who already get it. Most hiring managers do.”
“I've never loved spending time on the machines at the gym. But I have discovered an exercise regimen I can dedicate myself to: yoga. It's changed my body.”
“It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.”
“Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.”
“Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.”