Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
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 KingsolverCodi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
Barbara KingsolverI think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.
Barbara KingsolverIf 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 Kingsolver