American - Novelist | April 8, 1955 - 8
Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community.
Barbara Kingsolver
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
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I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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