Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
Barbara KingsolverWhat a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
Barbara KingsolverTerms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
Barbara KingsolverThe bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business...I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
Barbara Kingsolver