Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
Barbara KingsolverI stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them.
Barbara KingsolverI've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
Barbara Kingsolver