God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
Barbara KingsolverWhen you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.
Barbara KingsolverYou 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 KingsolverThis will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.
Barbara Kingsolver