Top 24 Quotes by Edward P. Jones

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I don't want to own something that you can't take into your apartment at night.

I don't want to own something that you can't take into your apartment at night.

Edward P. Jones

From my apartment in Arlington, I could see Washington. It was always nice to be near home.

From my apartment in Arlington, I could see Washington. It was always nice to be near home.

Edward P. Jones

Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.

Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.

Edward P. Jones

You don't go to the library and walk along and pick out a topic. You are riding the bus, or shopping at Safeway, and all of a sudden the idea comes to you.

You don't go to the library and walk along and pick out a topic. You are riding the bus, or shopping at Safeway, and all of a sudden the idea comes to you.

Edward P. Jones

My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.

My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.

Edward P. Jones

My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But she couldn't afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education.

Edward P. Jones

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.

Edward P. Jones

My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a white teacher until I got to high school.

My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a white teacher until I got to high school.

Edward P. Jones

I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred years, with my only company being an illiterate guard who came twice a day with meals but who never spoke, I would still write - on coarse toilet paper in the dark if I could spare it.

Edward P. Jones

I've never been comfortable with the idea of using family and friends in stories. Which is why it takes me longer than something else. Because you make them up out of nothing. Doing that is harder.

I've never been comfortable with the idea of using family and friends in stories. Which is why it takes me longer than something else. Because you make them up out of nothing. Doing that is harder.

Edward P. Jones

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