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Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.
Ernest Gaines
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Ernest Gaines
Age: 86 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 15
Died: 2019
Died: November 5
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I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
Ernest Gaines
Everything's been said, but it needs saying again.
Ernest Gaines
We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?
Ernest Gaines
I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.
Ernest Gaines
All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.
Ernest Gaines
And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better.
Ernest Gaines
He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.
Ernest Gaines
I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.
Ernest Gaines
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.
Ernest Gaines
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
Ernest Gaines
I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.
Ernest Gaines
And I thought to myself, What am I doing? Am I reaching them at all? They are acting exactly as the old men did earlier. They are fifty years younger, maybe more, but doing the same thing those old men did who never attended school a day in their lives. Is it just a vicious circle? Am I doing anything?
Ernest Gaines
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
Ernest Gaines
You going back, she said. You ain't going to run away from this, Grant.
Ernest Gaines
I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.
Ernest Gaines
Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect. We were enemies if anything. He hated me, and I knew it, and he knew I knew it. I didn't like him, but I needed him, needed him to tell me something that none of the others could or would.
Ernest Gaines
Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.
Ernest Gaines
...my heart may have been in it but my soul was not.
Ernest Gaines
Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.
Ernest Gaines
A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.
Ernest Gaines
