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I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take.…

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Jamaica Kincaid has 68 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small…
But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or…
I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always…
I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying…
The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot…
Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at…
The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept…
There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.
One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing that the…
But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are…
It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.

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