Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  People, House, Skins

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Animal Dreams: A Novel”, p.40, Harper Collins

• I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook. And I can understand a tender, unprejudiced Jesus. But I could never quite feature the two of them living in the same house. You wind up walking on eggshells, never knowing which... is at home at the moment.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Jesus, Home, Views

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.85, Faber & Faber

• Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Lying, House, Empty

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.74, Faber & Faber

• Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, People, House

• The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Hands, House, Brain

• I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Summer, Thinking, Poetry

• Plot comes first. The plot is the archictecture of your novel. You wouldn't build a house without a plan. If I wrote without a plot, it would just be a pile of bricks. Characters are your servants. They must serve your plot.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Character, House, Firsts

  The Writers Write Interview, writerswrite.co.za. February 10, 2015.

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