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I don't want to own something that you can't take into your apartment at night.

I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred years, with my only company being an illiterate guard who came twice a day with meals but who never spoke, I would still write - on coarse toilet paper in the dark if I could spare it.

Edward P. Jones

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.

Edward P. Jones

I don't want to own something that you can't take into your apartment at night.

Edward P. Jones

My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.

Edward P. Jones

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.

Edward P. Jones

Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever, but because of the varieties of stories, which might be useful as the days pass.

Edward P. Jones

I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.

Edward P. Jones

From my apartment in Arlington, I could see Washington. It was always nice to be near home.

Edward P. Jones

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

Edward P. Jones

My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a white teacher until I got to high school.

Edward P. Jones

I've never been comfortable with the idea of using family and friends in stories. Which is why it takes me longer than something else. Because you make them up out of nothing. Doing that is harder.

Edward P. Jones