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Tayari Jones has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill you. That's…
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And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too.…
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Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and…
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I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is…
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If there was ever a time to boil up some grits it is now.
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I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug…
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Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent.
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It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.
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My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a…
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This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on.…
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I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen…
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I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer.…
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I've only read fiction, so I don't know anything actual
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Marta said I don't seem to like to read fiction very much. "I guess you're not an 'afictionado'," she said. Poor Marta.…
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People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives.
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I don't read fiction at all.
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I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain…
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Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality…
— Alex Berenson
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When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch…
— Tayari Jones
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I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm…
— Karen Thompson Walker
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I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
— Jonathan Lethem
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I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped…
— Daniel Tammet
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I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear…
— Diane Setterfield
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