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Jesmyn Ward Quotes

I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has lived there for generations.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american

Topics

Family Small Border Small Town Edge

The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

John C. Danforth

Conflict Loudest Advocate Voices Who

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

Identity Me Hard Painful Been Times

When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.

Jencarlos Canela

Family Blue Party Everyone Up Big

I was obsessed with movies, and it ended up being the tool with which I could make friends. Because I was too painfully shy in other circumstances, I would say, 'Hey, do you want to make a movie?' And that's how I made friends, and it was also my escape.

Friends You Say Movies Circumstances

A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.

Story You Down Write Head Just

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

World Realistic Shoot Population

God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.

God I Am Infinite Without Out Here

I have so much to learn when it comes to running. I just don't ever want it to feel like a chore. When I choose to sign up for a race or go out for a run, it's to make myself feel good, and I almost always do.

Good Myself Feel Good Learn Choose

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

Moment End You Why 100 Years Asking

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.

Mathieu Kassovitz

Reality Hood Now Nothing Made Films

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

Louis Auchincloss

Genius Will Always Danger Greatest

There are 9 rejected ideas for every idea that works.

Ideas Idea Every Works Rejected

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