Ernest Gaines Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

  Ernest Gaines

  Writing, Golden, Six

• 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.

  Ernest Gaines

  Writing, Thinking, Who I Am

• I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.

  Ernest Gaines

  Reading, Writing, People

  Ernest J. Gaines (2007). “Mozart and Leadbelly”, p.27, Vintage

• I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.

  Ernest Gaines

  Writing, Feels, Wanted

  "Author Ernest Gaines comes home to where his ancestors were enslaved" by Wayne Drash, www.cnn.com. November 9, 2010.

• 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.

  Ernest Gaines

  Writing, Missing, Singing

• I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.

  Ernest Gaines

  New York, Writing, Years

  Live chat, cnn.com. May 13, 1999.

• I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature.

  Ernest Gaines

  Reading, Writing, Imagination

• All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

  Ernest Gaines

  Writing, Past, Trying

  Interview with Bob Faw, www.pbs.org. February 18, 2011.

• 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.

  Ernest Gaines

  Writing, Wife, Neglect

• I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.

  Ernest Gaines

  Writing, Trying, Plot

  Live chat, cnn.com. May 13, 1999.

• I write with as much objectivity as I can.

  Ernest Gaines

  Writing, Objectivity, I Can

• Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

  Ernest Gaines

  Writing, Yesterday, Pages

  "Author Ernest Gaines comes home to where his ancestors were enslaved" by Wayne Drash, www.cnn.com. November 9, 2010.

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