Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
Barbara KingsolverThere must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing but human product, we will have lost the map that can show us how we got here, and can offer our spirits an answer when we ask why. Surely we are capable of declaring sacred some quarters that we dare not enter or possess.
Barbara KingsolverI struggle with confidence, every time. Iโm never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too hard, surely readers wonโt want to follow me here. A novel is like a cathedral, it knocks you down to size when you enter into it.
Barbara KingsolverI'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
Barbara Kingsolver