In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step. Edward P. Jones Read Quote
The people I grew up around, almost all of them had been born and raised in the South. And, you know, they didn’t always go to church, but they lived their lives as if God were watching everything they did. Edward P. Jones Read Quote
I’ve never been comfortable with the idea of using family and friends in stories. Which is why it takes me longer than something else. Because you make them up out of nothing. Doing that is harder. Edward P. Jones Read Quote
I don’t believe that there is any particular book that influenced any ‘career’ I might have. Edward P. Jones Read Quote
I don’t want to own something that you can’t take into your apartment at night. Edward P. Jones Read Quote
My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn’t read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers. Edward P. Jones Read Quote
My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That’s what I did in first grade. But she couldn’t afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education. Edward P. Jones Read Quote
At first I read mostly books by Southern authors – black and white – because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell. Edward P. Jones Read Quote
