Previous Quote

Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

Next Quote
Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave ...The question is, why do you think you can't be a writer?

…The question is, why do you think you can’t be a writer?””To be a writer, you need readers.””I’m no painter, then. Who ever looks at my little dumb pieces of shit?

Barbara Kingsolver
Copy LinkCopy Link
Copy QuoteCopy Quote
Copy ImageCopy Image
Download Image of QuoteDownload Image

About The Quote

Related Authors

More Quotes From Barbara Kingsolver

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
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver
It's what you do that makes your soul not the other way around.
Barbara Kingsolver
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
Barbara Kingsolver
Love changes everything. I never suspected it would be so. Requited love, I should say ...
Barbara Kingsolver
Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew.
Barbara Kingsolver
Soon the maroon-throated howls would echo back from the other trees, father down the beach, until the whole jungle filled with roaring trees. As it was in the beginning, so it is every morning of the world.
Barbara Kingsolver
But newspapers have a duty to truth,' Van said.Lev clucked his tongue. 'They tell the truth only as the exception. Zola wrote that the mendacity of the press could be divided into two groups: the yellow press lies every day without hesitating. But others, like the Times, speak the truth on all inconsequential occasions, so they can deceive the public with the requisite authority when it becomes necessary.'Van got up from his chair to gather the cast-off newspapers. Lev took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. 'I don't mean to offend the journalists; they aren't any different from other people. They're merely the megaphones of the other people.
Barbara Kingsolver
Report Quote Report Quote Report Quote Submit Quote Submit Quote Submit Quote