"When it comes to memoir, we want to……" — Tayari Jones
"When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth."
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25 Quotes by Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones has 25 quotes on this site.
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People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill…
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And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental.…
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Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your…
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I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The…
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If there was ever a time to boil up some grits it is now.
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I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a…
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Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more…
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It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.
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My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized…
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This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as…
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I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we…
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I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't…
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
— Margaret Atwood
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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by…
— Henry Adams
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After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new…
— Robert Benchley
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I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than…
— Robert Benchley
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first…
— Robert Benchley
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Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
— Jeff Bezos
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who…
— Andrea Bocelli
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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
— Joyce Brothers
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
— Nolan Bushnell
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