- Novelist | May 25, 1949 -
I've never gotten used to winter and never will.
Jamaica Kincaid
WinterWillNeverUsedGotten
I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.
LoveGardeningPlantsGardenUp
I'm so used to being misunderstood.
MisunderstoodUsedBeing
Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.
TimePeopleConsciousnessBeingVery
The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else.
LifeLanguageMy LifeNothingBecome
The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
LiveMeAppreciateGardenThings
I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.
LifeHappinessTruthI AmThink
I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture.
LoveCultureAmericanYouSayCould
I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.
SeaOceanCreativeMePlaceIsland
I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.
LifeMoneyPeopleCollegeWriting
When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show.
MomentBullyingTrueWillTalkUp
When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be interested in the earth if you live in a place like this. I started to read a lot of geology, much to the horror of my friends.
LiveImpossibleFriendsYouEarth
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