Jamaica Kincaid Quotes About Books

• A los siete años me regalaron un diccionario y lo leí porque no tenía nada más que leer. Lo leí como se lee un libro.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Libro, Lectura, Novelistas

  "Jamaica Kincaid habla de la escritura y de la cultura 'outlaw American'". Entrevista con Nathan Rostron, www.usatoday.com. 7 de marzo de 2013.

• I've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying her life. There is something about this book that drives people mad with the autobiographical question.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Mother, Book, People

  "Jamaica Kincaid: ¿Tiene la verdad un tono?". Entrevista con Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. 17 de junio de 2013.

• The Holocaust happened in Europe, and that's important to how it is viewed. Had Europeans done such a thing in the far corners of the earth, rather than on their own doorstep, it might not be mentioned in the history books.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Book, Europe, Holocaust

  "Jamaica Kincaid: ¿Tiene la verdad un tono?". Entrevista con Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. 17 de junio de 2013.

• Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Reserve

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• 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

• 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!

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Book, Looks, Enough

  "Jamaica Kincaid: ¿Tiene la verdad un tono?". Entrevista con Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. 17 de junio de 2013.

• When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Book, Writing, Finished

  "Jamaica Kincaid: ¿Tiene la verdad un tono?". Entrevista con Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. 17 de junio de 2013.

• I would pretend when I was a child that I was Charlotte Brontë, because I'd read Jane Eyre when I was ten and, although I didn't understand it, I loved the idea that this woman had written a book. I wanted to be her.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Children, Book, Ideas

  "Jamaica Kincaid: ¿Tiene la verdad un tono?". Entrevista con Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. 17 de junio de 2013.

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