Quotes About Kingsolver

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

He's legitimizing personal greed as the principal religion of our country.

But honestly, XARrizZON! It sounds like strangling. What kind of a name is that?" "It was a president, señora." "Of what? Some place where they don't have any oxygen?" "Of the United States." "As I said.

She sounded like a man, with that deep voice smokers get as their prize for their hundred millionth pack.

will put you off candy corn for life.

But this is just one place. I'm afraid I have seen a world.

It is widely rumored, and also true, that I wrote my first novel in a closet.

To amuse my depraved Ada self

A book deal, Christ on a bike, quote unquote.

Here in the eastern woodlands we have the black, common, tulip, and white morels, and one unfortunate little cousin called (I am so sorry) the Dog Pecker.

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.