Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
Barbara KingsolverRead
Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!
Interpretation
What this quote means
Creating a book is a labor-intensive process akin to giving birth, requiring significant effort and dedication.
In this quote, Barbara Kingsolver compares the process of writing a book to birthing a baby, highlighting the immense emotional and physical energy invested in creating literature. Just as childbirth involves struggles and triumphs, so too does the journey of an author as they bring their ideas and stories to life, underscoring the passion and commitment that fuels the creative process.
Themes
WritingCreationEffortLaborArt
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about the importance of creative expression, one might use this quote to illustrate the dedication of writers.
More from Barbara Kingsolver
All quotes βChildren can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
Barbara KingsolverRead
I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
Barbara KingsolverRead
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
Barbara KingsolverRead
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara KingsolverRead
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
Barbara KingsolverRead
Similar quotes
The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time.
Gene WilderRead
People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.
BanksyRead
Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
Theodor W. AdornoRead
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.
W. Somerset MaughamRead
I find that when I write, I need things to be quiet, but when I design, I can't bear it if it's quiet.
Jonathan IveRead
I don't like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick. Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, 'Oh, everybody's perfect except me. Everything's smooth except me.' But nothing is smooth.
BjorkRead