I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about. — Ernest Gaines Feels Copy Share Image
Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing. — Ernest Gaines Action Copy Share Image
We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave? — Ernest Gaines Be brave Copy Share Image
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? — Ernest Gaines Amendment Copy Share Image
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by… — Ernest Gaines Books Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something,… — Ernest Gaines Family Copy Share Image
A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth -… — Ernest Gaines Believe Copy Share Image
There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past. — Ernest Gaines Change Copy Share Image
Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity. — Ernest Gaines Fellow man Copy Share Image
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything. — Ernest Gaines Question Copy Share Image
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to… — Ernest Gaines Figures Copy Share Image
What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion,… — Ernest Gaines Church Copy Share Image
Now, about that mulatto teacher and me. There was no love there for each other. There was not even respect. We were… — Ernest Gaines Dying Copy Share Image
We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to scream. He… — Ernest Gaines Anger Copy Share Image
We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They… — Ernest Gaines Alike Copy Share Image
When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I… — Ernest Gaines Church Copy Share Image
I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me.… — Ernest Gaines Brother Copy Share Image
What for?" I said. "What for, Tante Lou? He treated me the same way he treated her. He wants me to feel… — Ernest Gaines Dying Copy Share Image
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from… — Ernest Gaines Band Copy Share Image
Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit… — Ernest Gaines Aunt Copy Share Image
In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my… — Ernest Gaines Body Copy Share Image
I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only… — Ernest Gaines Believe Copy Share Image
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense. — Ernest Gaines Believe Copy Share Image
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good… — Ernest Gaines Interest Copy Share Image
You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant. — Ernest Gaines Dying Copy Share Image
Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday. — Ernest Gaines Pages Copy Share Image
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write. — Ernest Gaines Books Copy Share Image
All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened. — Ernest Gaines Alive Copy Share Image
I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to… — Ernest Gaines Books Copy Share Image
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such… — Ernest Gaines Eye Copy Share Image
Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else… — Ernest Gaines Got hurt Copy Share Image
In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I… — Ernest Gaines About Copy Share Image
I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I… — Ernest Gaines Dies Copy Share Image
Grace under pressure isn't just about bullfighters and men at war. It's about getting up every day to face a job or… — Ernest Gaines About Copy Share Image
But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to… — Ernest Gaines Chairs Copy Share Image
If I were to give one piece of advice, I would say to never accept anything that you hear or see at… — Ernest Gaines Accept Copy Share Image
