If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something about the world. I would like to say that they can trust that what they do learn in the novel will be accurate, because I pay a lot of attention to facts. I do a lot of research to make sure that I'm not giving them, you know, blue moons of Jupiter. It's not science fiction.
Barbara KingsolverIt occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
Barbara KingsolverOf the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
Barbara KingsolverWhen you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
Barbara Kingsolver