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Edward P. Jones Quotes

American - Novelist | -

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.

Edward P. Jones

Step You Journalism Build Fiction

My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But she couldn't afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education.

Edward P. Jones

Education Father Mother School Me

My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a white teacher until I got to high school.

Edward P. Jones

Mother Teacher School World Think

At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.

Edward P. Jones

Mother Black And White People Black

My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.

Edward P. Jones

Mother Memory Numbers Knowing She

I don't want to own something that you can't take into your apartment at night.

Edward P. Jones

Night You Want Apartment Own Take

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.

Edward P. Jones

Book Believe Career Might Influenced

Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever, but because of the varieties of stories, which might be useful as the days pass.

Edward P. Jones

Book Bible Choose Island Reason

'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially when you have a good professor.

Edward P. Jones

Good Best College Book Think You

I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.

Edward P. Jones

Down Never Write Head Driven Things

I'm not afraid of my own company. I was made to be at home.

Edward P. Jones

Home My Own Company Afraid Own Made

The people I grew up around, almost all of them had been born and raised in the South. And, you know, they didn't always go to church, but they lived their lives as if God were watching everything they did.

Edward P. Jones

God People Church You Born Know

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