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Marlon James Quotes

Jamaican - Athlete | November 16, 1976 -

I'd spent seven years in an all-boys school: 2,000 adolescents in the same khaki uniforms striking hunting poses, stalking lunchrooms, classrooms, changing rooms, looking for boys who didn't fit in.

School Looking Hunting Same Uniforms

I wanted a picture of Jamaica that isn't in books, and certainly not in novels.

Picture Jamaica Books Wanted Novels

I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.

Character People Think Heroes Greeks

Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant.

Literature Be True Imperialism True

I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody is ever one thing. That's what makes characters compelling.

Easy Nobody Never Always Tell Your

If your depiction of loss doesn't make the reader feel loss, then you didn't depict it right.

Feel Loss You Right Make Your

I'm really interested in how non-American countries process race.

Process Race Interested How Really

A lot of time, I'd spell things in standard English instead of phonetically because I want people to understand what's going on. It's also very lyrical, and the great thing about lyrical prose is even when you're not totally sure of the words, you can be swayed by the musicality of it.

Great Time Words People You Want

I think, for me, there's The Book I Should Write and The Book I Wanted to Write - and they weren't the same book. The Book I Should Write should be realistic, since I studied English Lit. It should be cultural. It should reflect where I am today. The Book I Wanted to Write would probably include flying women, magic, and all of that.

Women Today I Am Me Book Flying

Some of the craziest aspects about 'Weeper' were the things I found out to be true. I mean, true of people.

People Be True True Mean Out Things

My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have a book totally based on voice and being very spontaneous.

Women Past Me Night Book Voice

I find the violence in PG13 movies unbearable. This kid will never run home, never have another birthday. His death is slow, nightmarish. And you have to explore the consequences - the people who live on with this death.

Birthday Home Live Death People You

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