#thin

I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#back #because #before #brain #character

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#between #career #connection #different #film

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#built #how #memory #much #surprising

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#always #another #brains #carry #else

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#growing #growing up #had #home #just

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#brave #deeper #embrace #every #every time

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#even #few #few people #fountain #hope

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#anything #bluntly #commentary #going #i

It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#growing #me #safe #seems #surrounded

I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained. ↗

— Sally Kirkland

#already #come #going #i #i think