When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
The people I grew up around, almost all of them had been born and raised in the South. And, you know, they… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made,… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I've never been comfortable with the idea of using family and friends in stories. Which is why it takes me longer than… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
You don't go to the library and walk along and pick out a topic. You are riding the bus, or shopping at… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I don't want to own something that you can't take into your apartment at night. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids. They passed… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
“You too heavy a man for me to carry...I done carried heavy men and I know how they can break your back. I ain’t… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
“Without all that young stuff, Stamford, you will die a slave. And it will not be a pretty die.” — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
“She went through her memory for the time, for the day, she and and her husband told him all about what he should and… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
“A man does not learn very well, Mr. Robbins. Women, yes, because they are used to bending with whatever wind comes along. A woman,… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
From my apartment in Arlington, I could see Washington. It was always nice to be near home. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
“God is in his heaven and he don't care most of the time. The trick of life is to know when God does care… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
