Kingsolver Flight Quotes & Sayings

Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band. — Bill Vaughan

The grace of God is like insurance. It will help you in your time of need without any limit. — Sathya Sai Baba

All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone. — Erica Jong

I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man a stern talking to. Having a child changes things quite a bit. — Matthew Specktor

It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy. — Larry David

If you're not a flaming Filipino dancing queen, they never, ever expect the Asian guy to be asking about gay sex. They always figure you want to talk about math. Or the violin. — David Levithan

Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being alone ... — Elizabeth Gilbert

I never learn anything from listening to myself (Ovid Byron, in Flight Behavior) — Barbara Kingsolver

To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual, in so far as it is divorced from love for man, can refer only to the superficial and to the accidental; of necessity it remains shallow. — Erich Fromm

It wasn't all a waste," she told him over and over, holding on. Some things they got right, she was sure of that. The children. And for all the rest they wept, a merged keening that felt bottomless. For the years and years of things that didn't exist, fantasies of flight where there was no flight. Nothing, really, but walking away on your own two feet. She felt tears frozen on her face. — Barbara Kingsolver