I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Of course his life could be found in the pages of a book; I had just begun to notice that the lives… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I'm trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Of course, every time I end a book, I look down at myself and I'm just the same. I'm always disappointed that… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I would pretend when I was a child that I was Charlotte Brontë, because I'd read Jane Eyre when I was ten… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“...she talked in one of her memoirs of ignoring her little brother when she was supposed to be looking after him: "I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college.… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. And the important thing isn't whether I'm angry. The more… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
"Race." I really can't understand it as anything other than something people say. The people who have said that you and I are both… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry."… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
“Have you ever wondered to yourself why it is that all people like me seem to have learned from you is how to imprison… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
“Do you see the queer thing about people like me? Sometimes we hold your retribution.” — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
