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In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.

~Edward P. Jones

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It just so happens that I was born and raised in Washington. Had I been born in Chicago or San Antonio, the streets and places would have figured into whatever I wrote. Just so happens that it's Washington, D.C.

~Edward P. Jones

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In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids. They passed the civil rights bill that summer; my cousins were so happy because now they could swim in the pool.

~Edward P. Jones

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From my apartment in Arlington, I could see Washington. It was always nice to be near home.

~Edward P. Jones

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I've never been comfortable with the idea of using family and friends in stories. Which is why it takes me longer than something else. Because you make them up out of nothing. Doing that is harder.

~Edward P. Jones

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People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

~Edward P. Jones

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I never like to put myself in the stories; in 'Lost in the City,' there are fourteen stories, and there's only one, 'The First Day,' about a little girl going to school, that has anything to do with me.

~Edward P. Jones

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My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a white teacher until I got to high school.

~Edward P. Jones

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Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

~Edward P. Jones

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I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred years, with my only company being an illiterate guard who came twice a day with meals but who never spoke, I would still write - on coarse toilet paper in the dark if I could spare it.

~Edward P. Jones

Topics: Being Came Company Could Dark Day Guard Hundred Hundred Years If I Could Illiterate Meals Much Muster Never Only Paper Said Sentence Sincerity Spare Spoke Still Thrown Toilet Toilet Paper Twice Twice A Day Were Who Would Write Years I Can

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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