"I write out of defiance."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Writing Quotes #Defiance Quotes

“True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people to do such extravagant, irrational things. Now I do. It's an illness. You can catch it when you least expect. There's no known cure. And sometimes, in its most extreme, it's fatal.”
“I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.”
“You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz”
“I'd like to have sex with myself.”
“Sharing art makes me feel vulnerable. Sharing a piece of you that cannot be objectified, that is so truly you. It is scary releasing new music to the public, because as soon as you do, it becomes a shared receptacle to which others can attach their own opinion and meaning. What makes it scary is also what makes it worth doing.”
“I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.”
“Some people can have a dark side, completely the opposite of the image they portray.”

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