Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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's Popular Quotes

I prefer to remain anomalous.

- Barbara Kingsolver

The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.

- Barbara Kingsolver

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

- Barbara Kingsolver

Downstream is always someone else's up.

- Barbara Kingsolver

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

- Barbara Kingsolver

One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to li…

- Barbara Kingsolver

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

- Barbara Kingsolver

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

- Barbara Kingsolver

She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't.

- Barbara Kingsolver