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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels. — Ernest Gaines

That's man's way. To prove something. Day in, day out he must prove he is a man. Poor Fool. — Ernest J. Gaines

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday. — Ernest Gaines

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write. — Ernest Gaines

I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline. — Ernest Gaines

Everything's been said, but it needs saying again. — Ernest Gaines

The mark of fear is not easily removed. — Ernest Gaines

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened. — Ernest Gaines

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past. — Ernest Gaines

We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave? — Ernest Gaines

I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not. — Ernest Gaines

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is. — Ernest Gaines

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be. — Ernest Gaines

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow. — Ernest Gaines

I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about. — Ernest Gaines

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God. — Ernest Gaines

I write with as much objectivity as I can. — Ernest Gaines

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? — Ernest Gaines

We must live with our own conscience. Each and every one of us must live with his own conscience. — Ernest J. Gaines

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing. — Ernest Gaines

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist. — Ernest Gaines

You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken. — Ernest Gaines

Ain't we all been hurt by slavery? — Ernest J. Gaines

Go and be fish again. — Ernest J. Gaines

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience. — Ernest Gaines

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing. — Ernest Gaines

The sky blue blue, Mr. Wiggins. — Ernest J. Gaines

We ain't giving up," I said. "We done gone this far. — Ernest J. Gaines

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake. — Ernest Gaines

Memories wasn't a place, memories was in the mind. — Ernest J. Gaines

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense. — Ernest Gaines

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth. — Ernest Gaines

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home. — Ernest Gaines

...my heart may have been in it but my soul was not. — Ernest J. Gaines

I tried to decide just how I should respond to them. Whether I should act like the teacher that I was, or like the nigger that I was supposed to be. — Ernest J. Gaines

He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts. — Ernest Gaines

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God? — Ernest Gaines

Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One. — Ernest Gaines

"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant." — Ernest Gaines