“It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write....” — Barbara Kingsolver Quote

“It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.”

“It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.”

“I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.”

“I came in during the era of models, motion control, and optical printers. ILM had just started its own computer graphics division, after the Lucasfilm computer division had been sold off and became Pixar.”

“If you ask people whether a computer can be smarter than a human, 99.9 percent will say that's science fiction. Actually, it's inevitable. It's guaranteed to happen.”

“In 2-D, the way you draw defines you, but in CG the computer takes away your identity.”