Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

Jamaica Kincaid

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
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  • Birth: May 25, 1949

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The great thing about having digital comics is that it is like having a comic-book shop on your digital device. It has turned comics from a destination buy to an impulse buy.

Jim Lee

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My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes.

Jim Crace

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I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

Jessica Savitch

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From the first time I did a movie, people have said, 'Oh, it's all going to change now.' And it would change, but very incrementally. I think I prefer that to some big explosion of fame all of the sudden.

John C. Reilly

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Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.

John Bercow

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We cannot turn back the clock. We cannot undo the impact of technology. Nor would we want to.

Robert Mueller

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The mere suggestion that not speaking for a day can give you an appreciation of the social isolation that comes with the experience of disability, particularly those whose impairments prohibit them from communicating verbally, is insensitive at best.

Stella Young

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I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

Steven Spielberg

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The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

Simon Sinek

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If something grooves and you like the sound, then that's all you need.

Ry Cooder

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I'm not particularly a football fan, but I live in north London, and I can hear when Arsenal score, and it's fantastically exciting. Down the road you can hear the roar.

Mike Newell

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Work certainly does help fill a void.

Judi Dench

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