Ernest Gaines Quotes

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.

Ernest Gaines

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 15, 1933

Topics

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I'm very humbled by the fact that I do have so much to say, and I just hope that my walk, my honesty, will make a difference for people and maybe motivate them.

Jenifer Lewis

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I played classical as a kid.

John Legend

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Zombies are so popular. There's a lot of chaff out there. For every one person who is legitimately passionate about zombies, there are a hundred people who are thinking, 'Hey, I can make a buck off of this.' The problem is that some of their stuff is so lame.

Max Brooks

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What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

Matthew Shipp

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Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

Jean Ingelow

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It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.

Ron Livingston

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Chelsea feels like a big family.

Michy Batshuayi

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Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work.

Michael Nesmith

WorkPastNewTryOldIdea

It is essential that we stop worrying about money and stop resenting our bills.

Louise L. Hay

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With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.

Joseph Brodsky

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It's not a question that people have a very negative image of Chicago. They just don't think about it.

Desiree Rogers

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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Aristotle

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