Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
Barbara Kingsolver
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go...... →
When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.
Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that... →
I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a... →
Alex Kingston
If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.
Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
Jack Kingston
Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be... →
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness... →
Maxine Hong Kingston