Ernest Gaines

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

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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

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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

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I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

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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

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I write with as much objectivity as I can. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

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The mark of fear is not easily removed. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

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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

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Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

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When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

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