Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares? Every spring I go out there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally. ... Come the end of the dark days, I am more than joyful. I'm nuts.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Crazy, Spring, Passion

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.43, Faber & Faber

• In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Running, Passion, Long

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.556, Faber & Faber

• Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Believe, Book, Passion

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

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