Latest James McBride Quotes from Interviews

• Ahora soy mejor músico y apenas practico porque la edad me ha enseñado el valor de la economía. Y creo que ahora soy mejor escritor porque no pierdo tanto el tiempo dándole vueltas a la cabeza. Cuando empiezas a escribir, la mitad del tiempo te dedicas a decir hola a la página. Mi proceso ahora es un poco más delgado y musculoso. No pierdo mucho tiempo. Cuando tuve hijos, aprendí cuánto tiempo tenía antes y cuánto tiempo necesitas realmente para hacer algo. Si no tienes tiempo, lo haces y ya está.

  James McBride

  Escribir, Niños, Pensar

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• Music and writing do fold together in the sense that you have to have a certain level of skill in order to execute your ideas and you need a medium. The idea of improvisation is one that many writers fall into, and I improvise a great deal when I'm writing, but there's a structural framework that I'm working around, and that takes more time than the actual writing. Once the characters get to yapping and talking, they'll move from one room to the next, and I just have to make sure that the house is built. That's really hard, that's the kind of thing that sits with you all day long.

  James McBride

  Moving, Fall, Character

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• Tiene que haber algo de misterio en la vida, porque la alegría de ser escritor y la alegría de ser músico es la alegría del descubrimiento. No quiero que nadie descubra por mí lo que yo debería descubrir por mí mismo. Si una persona está descubriendo por mí, entonces está viviendo por mí. Es mi responsabilidad, de hecho es mi privilegio, salir y descubrir el mundo por mí mismo.

  James McBride

  Responsabilidad, Alegría, Músico

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• It's a real stumper to sit around and try to think in your own head, but when you go into somebody else's head that takes the foot off the breaks. You can think in someone else's head.

  James McBride

  Real, Pensar, Intentar

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• Lo básico es ser humilde y fingir que eres un camarero en la taberna de la vida. No te pongas demasiado cómodo y no escuches a nadie. No te quedes con un montón de escritores hablando de escribir. Sabes que cuando ves a fontaneros en una convención de fontaneros, normalmente no hablan de fontanería: hablan de lo que sea que hablen dos hombres. Hablan de deportes, de sus mujeres y de sus hijos. Yo sólo les digo a mis alumnos que no hablen demasiado de escribir, que salgan y lo hagan. Averigua lo que necesites para llegar a tierra firme.

  James McBride

  Deportes, Niños, Escritura

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• Puedo escribir en cualquier sitio. Me cuesta escribir cuando pían los pájaros y corren los arroyos. Lo he intentado varias veces, durante meses, tratando de escribir en un lugar tranquilo y maravilloso donde trinan los pájaros y se prepara el café. Y no pasa nada. Pero si estoy en un viejo basurero como mi antiguo apartamento y no puedo encontrar mi cortaúñas y nada funciona excepto la vieja tetera, eso es genial. Siempre tienes que encontrar y vivir en un lugar un poco incómodo cuando eres escritor. Necesitas una rebaba en tu costado.

  James McBride

  Correr, escribir, tiempos difíciles

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination.

  James McBride

  Imagination, Romance

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• There are some really great books that have been written about slavery, but I don't think that the discourse about it in society has been very accurate or healthy. I don't think we've come up with ways to tell it that don't insult people or hit them in the wrong way. Part of the problem is that most people don't really understand what slavery was anyway. Most white people didn't own slaves. Slavery was a way of life, just like driving cars is a way of life now. It doesn't mean that it was right.

  James McBride

  Libro, Significado, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• Cuando caminas por la tierra significativa, la tierra te habla, aunque sea 150 años después. Caminas por la tierra y ocurren cosas buenas. Siempre hay algo que decir sobre ir a un lugar, aunque no haya nada allí. Por eso tienes cerebro, tu mente se desplaza a otros lugares cuando estás en un sitio importante.

  James McBride

  Movimiento, Cerebro, Mente

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• The act of choosing what to place in your piece when you're a historian or a non-fiction writer already renders it into fiction for someone else. In some ways fiction comes a lot closer to reality. When you start talking about something as brutal as slavery and life in the American West, it's really important to take a non- judgmental stance. We romanticize a great deal about life in the American West, but I thank God I wasn't living during that time. No matter what color you were, it was rough, crude, tough living.

  James McBride

  Reality, Important, Thank God

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• I think comedy allows people to accept the more difficult parts of history. And history, if it's presented wrong, is just very depressing, particularly the history of slavery. If slavery is presented properly, it's a great story. But I think that within the commercial world of storytelling in which I live, there haven't been many strong works that discuss slavery in ways that are palatable and funny and interesting to the reader.

  James McBride

  Depressing, Strong, Thinking

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• There are two responses to really awful things. One is to lament and say, "Oh my God, oh lord." And the other is to laugh at it a little bit, try your best to deal with it and, if you can, forget about it as soon as possible.

  James McBride

  Laughing, Trying, Forget

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• Lo que el humor te permite es dejar ir el pasado con menos dolor. Es un elemento curativo. Libera parte del dolor de la herida de escopeta.

  James McBride

  Dolor, Curación, Pasado

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.

  James McBride

  Book, College, Giving

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• My whole family was - we grew up in New York, but all my relatives and all my father and stepfather's family, they were all from the South. So I like that old Black voice, and I love the sort of old Black man with a corncob pipe, sitting there telling a whopper.

  James McBride

  New York, Father, Men

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.

  James McBride

  Thinking, Prejudice, News

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• Slavery was a web of relationships, and if people knew how thick the whole business was, they would not make fun of people like Harriet Tubman. They would understand how intelligent she was and how sharp.

  James McBride

  Fun, Intelligent, People

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• The thing that I do is that when I fail, I just keep quiet about it. I just let it go. It's done. I just go to the next thing. I don't complain, I don't go to - I pick my battles very, very judiciously, and I just assume that there's good in the heart of everybody.

  James McBride

  Heart, Let It Go, Battle

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• Soy uno de los pocos escritores negros, o afroamericanos, que ha conseguido abrirse camino a través del sistema, lo que me ha permitido hablar con cierta libertad. Pero la mayoría de los escritores afroamericanos no tienen eso. No tienen esa oportunidad, no la tienen.

  James McBride

  Oportunidad, afroamericano, negro

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone is a good musician or a bad musician. What happens with Black writers and Black artists is that if you're critiqued, for example, by a Black historian who wants to get his name on the cover of "The New York Times," and he says something, like, wacky, well, he'll get his name on the cover of "The New York Times" and he might get tenure, and your career suffers.

  James McBride

  New York, Libro, Artista

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• No eres un hombre negro. Eres un ser humano a los ojos de Dios. Así que cuando te sientas a hablar con alguien y le hablas en términos realmente inteligentes, le haces preguntas difíciles, hay una militancia que se te asigna sin que la pidas, porque simplemente se te juzga por cómo eres. Si eres una persona blanca que hace las mismas preguntas, serías uno de esos tipos de la CNN y dirías lo brillante que es. Eso no funciona para ti, porque este es el mundo en el que vivimos.

  James McBride

  Ojo, Inteligente, Hombres

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• If you're going to cheat and take people's history and you're not writing the Bible, you ain't really so great. But if you try to do it in a way that doesn't hurt too many people, then you probably can get out of bed in the morning and look at yourself in the mirror.

  James McBride

  Hurt, Morning, Writing

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• I'm trying to educate people about things that I believe are right, and some of the things that I believe are right might not be right, so I live in constant self-doubt. I think that creates a kind of search that you have to have, and it prevents you from doing a lot of stuff that you would normally do.

  James McBride

  Creer, Pensar, Uno M ismo

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• I could have been, and may one day well be a high school English teacher, because I've been given so much I just feel like I have to give something back. The fact that some people consider my work to be good or strong, it's nice, but I know in my heart that if it's not coming - oftentimes it's probably not coming from the best place.

  James McBride

  Teacher, Strong, Nice

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• I grew up in the church, and so I feel that God gave me certain things to do, and I'm lucky enough to kind of have figured those things out. I just don't want to die not having tried to help somebody else with what I know.

  James McBride

  Church, Lucky, Want

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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