I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
Remember that the writing itself is good for you. If your story is so close to home that you are afraid to… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too.… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“Dwayne is right: blood does call to blood. I was always waiting for hers to beckon to mine, but I never considered that it… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill you. That's all you… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“Some things were inevitable. You'd have to be a fool to think otherwise.” — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“What right did my father have to the details of my life? He squandered his chance to be the protective father. You can't come… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent. — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“Everything was almost the same with her, but she went about her business in a way that put me in mind of an old… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
