A Lesson Before Dying
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Source: Conversations with Ernest Gaines
“Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.”
Source: A Lesson Before Dying
Source: A Lesson Before Dying
“I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.”
Source: A Lesson Before Dying
“Everything's been said, but it needs saying again.”
Source: Conversations with Ernest Gaines
“...my heart may have been in it but my soul was not.”
Source: Conversations with Ernest Gaines
“You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.”
Source: Conversations with Ernest Gaines
“I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.”
Source: A Lesson Before Dying
“How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?”
Source: A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel
Source: A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel
“Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.”
Source: Bloodline: Five Stories
Source: A Lesson Before Dying
Source: A Lesson Before Dying
Source: A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel
“"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."”
Source: A Lesson Before Dying
Source: A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel
Source: A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel
“The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.”
Source: Mozart and Leadbelly
“We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?”
Source: Conversations with Ernest Gaines
Source: A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel
“Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.”
Source: Bloodline: Five Stories
“Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.”
Source: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Source: Conversations with Ernest Gaines
“I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.”
Source: A Lesson Before Dying
“All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.”
“I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.”
“Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.”