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If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot of American writers are professionals.
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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The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.
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Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night cap.
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A piece of cloth that is called linen has more validity than calling you and me black or negro. Cotton has more validity as cotton than yours and my being black.
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For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided. This is the life I have. This is the life I write about.
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Often the lines that define the traditional European arrangement of fiction, non-fiction, history, etc. are not useful. These lines can distort the world we, people who look like me, live in - and by the world, I mean our personal experience of it.
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Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.
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What I don't write is as important as what I write.
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Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.
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I've never gotten used to winter and never will.
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That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn't want to love one more thing in my life, didn't want one more thing that could make my heart break into a million little pieces at my feet.
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On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.
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when people say you're charming you are in deep trouble.
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I've come to see that I'm saying something that people generally do not want to hear.
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I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.
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I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation I could only count on intuition.
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If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things. It's arranged along informal lines.
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A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.
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My disappointments stand up and grow ever taller. They will not be lost to me.
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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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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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