Quotes About Tayari Jones

The bitter scratch of his unshaven good-night kiss will always, for me, be the sensation of grief.

he says he can't see why I didn't "just" tell the truth. but the truth is denser than he can imagine, yet it's more delicate than my body; it's more complicated than any love that ever passed between the two of us.

Tell her I asked after her." Celestial isn't the kind of singer you would want at your wedding. While her mother is a gravity-defying soprano, she is a scotch-and-Marlboros alto.

You don't want no woman that brandished a firearm, son.

I shook my head. Roy wasn't that type of man, although he had dignity in spades. But for a person like Roy, letting go wasn't a self-respecting option.

My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.