The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word I write.
Jamaica KincaidI'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.
Jamaica KincaidI think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.
Jamaica KincaidMost of the nations that have serious gardening cultures have, or had, empires. You can't have this luxury of pleasure without somebody paying for it. This is nice to know. It's nice to know that when you sit down to enjoy a plate of strawberries, somebody got paid very little so that you could have your strawberries. It doesn't mean the strawberries will taste different, but it's nice to enjoy things less than we do. We enjoy things far too much, and it leads to incredible pain and suffering.
Jamaica Kincaid