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I've come to think that the traditional way of writing is the artificial way that that's not the way things work at all. It's not the way thinking works.

— Jamaica Kincaid Interview with NPR (2013)

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More quotes by Jamaica Kincaid

I now see that good behaviour is the proper posture of the weak, of children.

A Small Place (1988)

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

The Autobiography of My Mother (1996)

It's always amazing to me the people who talk about the superiority of Western civilization—nothing else has done more to destroy the earth!

Interview with Goodreads (2013)

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

The Autobiography of My Mother (1996)

The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.

The Autobiography of My Mother (1996)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

Suman Pokhrel

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Robert Benchley

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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