Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Jobs, Block, Waiting

• Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Writing, Work Ethic, Waiting

• That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  People, Waiting, Stories

• There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their cameras, impatient crowds eager to call the race, astounded to see the scientists approach, pass the mark, and keep running. It's a common misunderstanding, he said. They conclude there was no race. As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Running, Race, Knowing Everything

• You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Book, Imagination, Waiting

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