In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. — 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
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
When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a… — 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
When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
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 Image
Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I… — 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
I'm writing out of desperation. I felt compelled to write to make sense of it to myself - so I don't end… — 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
You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule. — 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
It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Everything I do is because of writing. If I go for a walk, it's because I'm thinking of writing. I go look… — 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
All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to… — 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
