Top 31 Quotes by Marlon James

At 28 years old, seven years out of college, I was so convinced that my voice outed me as a fag that I had stopped speaking to people I didn't know.

Some of the craziest aspects about 'Weeper' were the things I found out to be true. I mean, true of people.

The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.

I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody is ever one thing. That's what makes characters compelling.

I grew up with reggae. Reggae is like family. I know it, and there's a type of love and familiarity, but sometimes you want to hang out with other people.

I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false life.

What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings.

Because homophobia is still largely driven by the church, it's legitimised. It's also tied to sexism, because those two are never far apart.

If your depiction of loss doesn't make the reader feel loss, then you didn't depict it right.

In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them.