Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in St. John's, Antigua, which is part of the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda. She lives in North Bennington, Vermont, during the summers and teaches at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California as the "Josephine Olp Weeks Chair and Professor of Literature" as well as the "Professor of African and American studies in Residence" at Harvard during the academic year. Kincaid is an award-winning writer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 May 1949
support trying literature
I'm trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and I hope to support myself in it.
want singers used
I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.
culture outlaw american-culture
I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture.
princess people want
I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.
lonely loneliness reading
One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.
real past use
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.
book writing finished
When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished.
persons known ifs
I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.
real exciting something-real
Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?
book looks enough
Of course, every time I end a book, I look down at myself and I'm just the same. I'm always disappointed that I'm just the same, but not enough to never do it again!
tired ideas way
That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.
taken simple world
Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.
writing want
When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself.
writing certain i-can
I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my head.