Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.
Barbara KingsolverAs a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
Barbara KingsolverNo other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.
Barbara KingsolverI didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
Barbara Kingsolver