"I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little,……" — Jamaica Kincaid
"I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess."
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68 Quotes by Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid has 68 quotes on this site.
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It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in…
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But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas…
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I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I…
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I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't…
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The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
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When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do…
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Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular,…
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The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they…
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There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.
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One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing…
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But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere.…
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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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But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas…
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Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte…
— J.A. Konrath
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The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited…
— James A. Michener
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Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa,…
— Elif Batuman
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So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the…
— Francine Prose
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We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life,…
— Virginia Woolf
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To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at…
— Maureen Corrigan
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I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her…
— Laura Marling
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought…
— Frances O'Connor
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Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so…
— Jessica Brown Findlay
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My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as…
— C.S. Lewis
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