Ernest Gaines Quotes

Most Famous Ernest Gaines Quotes of All Time!

We have created a collection of some of the best ernest-gaines quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Ernest Gaines Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.

Popular Quotes Topics for You.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.

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

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

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

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

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

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

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.

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.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

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.

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community.

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

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

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.

Grace under pressure isn't just about bullfighters and men at war. It's about getting up every day to face a job or a white boss you don't like but have to face to feed your children so they'll grow up to be a better generation.

In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.

Guys, we are trying to share Unique Ernest Gaines Quotes, so you will not get to read the same things again and again on our website. You can also share your favorites on Facebook or send them to a friend who loves to reading quotes.