One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person. Jamaica Kincaid Read Quote
At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure. Jamaica Kincaid Read Quote
When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It’s impossible not to be interested in the earth if you live in a place like this. I started to read a lot of geology, much to the horror of my friends. Jamaica Kincaid Read Quote
When I write nonfiction, it’s always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show. Jamaica Kincaid Read Quote
I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place. Jamaica Kincaid Read Quote
I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn’t help but read anything that was in front of me. Jamaica Kincaid Read Quote
I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don’t recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn’t look anything like me, and I can’t find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well – even her anxiety. Jamaica Kincaid Read Quote
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book. Jamaica Kincaid Read Quote
The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they’re not. Jamaica Kincaid Read Quote
When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I’ve always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables. Jamaica Kincaid Read Quote
