"I wrote the first draft of my first……" — Jesmyn Ward
"I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing."
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16 Quotes by Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward has 16 quotes on this site.
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Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts…
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Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to…
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By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic…
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There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in…
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I wanted to be my own heroine.
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She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered…
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I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled…
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I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the…
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That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.
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While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there…
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I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose…
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My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand…
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Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your…
— Antonin Artaud
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
— Samuel Beckett
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's…
— Jolene Blalock
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I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to…
— Jo Brand
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While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot…
— Garth Brooks
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My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire…
— Gisele Bundchen
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No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the…
— Truman Capote
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We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we…
— Benjamin Carson
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If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in…
— Nick Cave
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People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog.…
— John Jay Chapman
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Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind…
— Margaret Cho
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