"When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you cant be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything."

--

Source : "The two dollars a day literary sensation" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2004.

Edward P. Jones

#Mother Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Growing Up Quotes

“The only way to write a book, Iâ€™m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. Thatâ€™s how you write a book.”
“The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.”
“I love standing under a steaming shower when I'm tired in the morning. I don't really get a chance for baths.”
“Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution.... The terrorists are not anything like the threat we face from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism.... The American constitutional system is near to being overthrown”
“Never traffic in unpracticed truth.”
“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.”
“What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me.”
“A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something 'measured' and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven 'creativity.”

You may also like:

Deborah Eisenberg
Short story writer
Denis Johnson
Writer
Edwidge Danticat
Author
Hilary Mantel
Writer
Junot Diaz
Writer
Marilynne Robinson
Novelist
Paul Harding
Musician
Philip Roth
Novelist
ZZ Packer
Author