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Everything I do is because of writing. If I go for a walk, it's because I'm thinking of writing. I go look at flowers, I go look at the garden, I go look at a museum, but it's all coming back to writing.
Jamaica Kincaid
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Jamaica Kincaid
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 25
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Elanie Potter Richardson
Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson
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I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another outside false, inside true.
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So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is fiction or non-fiction, that this is history or this is a novel, are often useless.
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One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.
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It's too easy to say this or that is race, and that has been a vehicle for an incredible amount of wrong in the world.
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...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.
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I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.
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The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.
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When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself.
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Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world.
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Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children it's just the way they are.
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I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
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Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night cap.
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The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word I write.
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I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.
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I don't feel I'm angry. I feel as though I'm describing something true. If I had stabbed my husband, I could understand being called angry. If I had an affair with my husband's best friend and written about that experience, I could see the anger. But I'm not doing that.
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Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.
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The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart—idea of thing, reality of thing—the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.
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I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write I just didn't know that it was possible.
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Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.
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when people say you're charming you are in deep trouble.
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