"I read about writers who have routines. They……" — Jamaica Kincaid
"I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my head."
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68 Quotes by Jamaica Kincaid
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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 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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Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.
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Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
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Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything,…
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I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper.' The whole thing is strange. You hear…
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Like I say, I'm always writing and if something sticks, it sticks. I get to write with great songwriters in…
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I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so…
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I don’t worry anymore about writing. There are times that I go through dry periods. I never go through a…
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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
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Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the…
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I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a…
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It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.
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I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.
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I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note,…
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