Writer Quotes by Jamaica Kincaid

I write out of defiance.

— Jamaica Kincaid

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.

— Jamaica Kincaid

When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished.

— Jamaica Kincaid

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

— Jamaica Kincaid

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

— Jamaica Kincaid

My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal.

— Jamaica Kincaid

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.

— Jamaica Kincaid

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

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

When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself.

— Jamaica Kincaid

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

“Of course his life could be found in the pages of a book; I had just begun to notice that the lives…

— Jamaica Kincaid

A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.

— Jamaica Kincaid

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

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

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

“...she talked in one of her memoirs of ignoring her little brother when she was supposed to be looking after him: "I…

— Jamaica Kincaid

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

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

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

I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the…

— Jamaica Kincaid

It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small…

— Jamaica Kincaid

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

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

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

I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a…

— Jamaica Kincaid

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

— Jamaica Kincaid

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

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

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

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