Occupation: Novelist Birth: April 8, 1955
What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive..
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape a….
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same.
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want..
it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time..
There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believ….
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer..
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?.
Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning ne….
The past is all we know of the future..
I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or….
War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones..
Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family ga….
Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limita….
He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million things you can't ha….
I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in..
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words..
If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two pe….
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, a….
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pa….
My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit..