"When I look back on my reading habits……" — Jesmyn Ward
"When I look back on my reading habits when I was really young, I was really drawn to stories about strong girls who in some ways are outsiders."
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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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I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage…
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More Drawn Quotes
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
— Arthur Ashe
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn…
— Saint Augustine
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In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
— Charles Babbage
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
— Charles Babbage
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to…
— Richard Bach
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We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion…
— Alfred Adler
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I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict…
— Emily Blunt
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I'm drawn to the path of least resistance.
— Jeff Bridges
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While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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