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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.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Tags: writing, rejection

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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Tags: mother-s-day, than, sometimes, motherhood, strength, happiness
Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.
— Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
Tags: philosophy
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Tags: how, things, memory, time
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Tags: essays, stranger, create, empathy
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Tags: reality, brave, world, time
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