Ernest Gaines Inspirational Quotes (28)

...my heart may have been in it but my soul was not.

In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go to California.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.