Quotes from Ernest Gaines

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.