Ernest Gaines
Ernest Gaines
Ernest James Gainesis an African-American author whose works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese. Four of his works have been made into television movies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 January 1933
CountryUnited States of America
motivational respect integrity
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
stars african-american stripes
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
mistake book would-be
Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.
writing golden six
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
woods pieces earth
And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better.
differences people world
We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have
motivational mean action
Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
wind broken
You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.
heart artist blood
The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.
writing thinking who-i-am
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.
writing missing singing
What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.
california soul body
In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go to California.
writing past trying
All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.
writing wife neglect
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.