{"id":44097,"date":"2026-09-21T07:53:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=44097"},"modified":"2026-09-21T07:53:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:53:54","slug":"a-writing-quote-from-the-awesome-barbara-kingsolver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2026\/09\/21\/a-writing-quote-from-the-awesome-barbara-kingsolver\/","title":{"rendered":"A Writing Quote from the Awesome Barbara Kingsolver"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">&#8220;Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don&#8217;t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It&#8217;s the one and only thing you have to offer&#8221;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>~ Barbara Kingsolver<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-39260 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Prodigal-Summer-3-95x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Prodigal-Summer-3-95x150.jpg 95w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Prodigal-Summer-3-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Prodigal-Summer-3.jpg 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 95px) 100vw, 95px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-39259 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Poisonwood-Bible-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Poisonwood-Bible-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Poisonwood-Bible-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Poisonwood-Bible.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40771 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Demon-Copperhead-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Demon-Copperhead-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Demon-Copperhead-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Demon-Copperhead-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Demon-Copperhead.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don&#8217;t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It&#8217;s the one and only thing you have to offer&#8221; ~ Barbara Kingsolver &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44097"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44101,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44097\/revisions\/44101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}