Root out all the "to be" verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No "It was" or "they are" or "I am." Don't let it be, make it happen.
I prefer to remain anomalous. - Barbara Kingsolver
I prefer to remain anomalous.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say. - Barbara Kingsolver
The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can. - Barbara Kingsolver
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
Downstream is always someone else's up. - Barbara Kingsolver
Downstream is always someone else's up.
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
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.
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
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…
Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. - Barbara Kingsolver
Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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
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.
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't. - Barbara Kingsolver
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't.
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