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Ernest J. Gaines
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“King is probably one of three men of this century that I'll call heroic. A fantastic man as far as I'm concerned, for all that he did.”
Ernest J. Gaines (1933–2019) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview with Patricia Rickels, as quoted in John Lowe (1995) Conversations with Ernest Gaines, University Press of Mississippi, p. 131
“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.”
Ernest J. Gaines (1933–2019) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Response after being asked "Do you regard yourself as a religious person?", in an interview with Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, February 18, 2011
“I would think a faith in God is one thing. I think that if we could change the whole world and keep the land is another thing. Change things yet keep keep the relationship is another thing.”
Ernest J. Gaines (1933–2019) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gaines response after being asked: "Do you also see things in that world that you wish could be retained?", as quoted by Marcia Gaudet and Carl WootonPorch in Talk with Ernest Gaines: Conversations on the Writer's Craft…
“In dialogue, I’m dealing with the sounds I’ve heard. One of the reasons I often write from first person or multiple points of view is to hear the voices of different characters. Omniscient narration becomes a problem because, for me, the omniscient is my own voice narrating the story and then bringing in characters for dialogue.”
Ernest J. Gaines (1933–2019) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On how he handled dialogue in his works in “An Interview with Ernest J. Gaines” in The Missouri Review (1999 Dec 1)
“When people hear stories, they identify more closely with the characters. When I read aloud, people always come up to me and say, “I understand it much better now that I’ve heard you read it. I can hear the characters’ voices much clearer…”
Ernest J. Gaines (1933–2019) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On how his reading aloud helped frame the character’s voice in “An Interview with Ernest J. Gaines” in The Missouri Review (1999 Dec 1)
“All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.”
Ernest J. Gaines (1933–2019) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview with Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, February 18, 2011
“I was never threatened…I never knew anyone who was lynched. But there was subtle racism every day of my life. You could not speak to a white man unless he spoke to you first. On the sidewalk, I’d have to move so a white person could walk by.”
Ernest J. Gaines (1933–2019) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his experiences with segregation (as quoted in “Ernest J. Gaines: A Great American Author Pays It Forward to a New Generation of Black Writers” in The Root; 2015 Jan 22)