Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? — Ernest Gaines Culture 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 Bigs 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 Accepting 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
Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday. — Ernest Gaines Pages 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
Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else… — Ernest Gaines Hurt Copy Share Image
"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant." — Ernest Gaines Dying 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
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
You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things… — Ernest Gaines Athlete 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
