Edward P. Jones Quotes
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Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.
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The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.
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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.
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When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you cant be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.
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Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.
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Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans.
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At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.
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We are all worthy of one another.
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A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.
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I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.
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