Zitat des Tages von Ernest Gaines:
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
The mark of fear is not easily removed.
In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.
Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.
I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.
I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community.
I write with as much objectivity as I can.
Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.
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.
