Jamaica Kincaid Quotes About Gardens

Quotes about: Gardens

• When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Writing, Garden, Thinking

• Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at the moment you engage them in the reality of the borders they cultivate, the space in the garden they occupy at any moment, they like in particular this, or they like in particular that.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Writing, Simple, Reality

• I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Weed, Garden, Digging A Hole

• The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Garden, Appreciate, Taught

• Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I walk around and walk around. Apparently people often see me standing there and they wave to me and I don't see them because I am reading the landscape.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Philosophy, Book, Reading

• In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Garden, Enemy, Sculpture

  Jamaica Kincaid (2001). “My Garden (Book)”, p.96, Macmillan

• Everything I do is because of writing. If I go for a walk, it's because I'm thinking of writing. I go look at flowers, I go look at the garden, I go look at a museum, but it's all coming back to writing.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Flower, Writing, Garden

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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