In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail. — 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
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'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
People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two. — 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
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 think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect… — 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
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.… — 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
I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life… — 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
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
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
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
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 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
If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And… — 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
I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at… — 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
In my writing, I'm often describing a universal situation. A situation in which human beings often choose to violate each other. Sometimes… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very… — 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
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
The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out… — 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'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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
"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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
“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 Image
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 Image
“Do you see the queer thing about people like me? Sometimes we hold your retribution.” — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
