74 Quotes by Ernest Gaines

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

Everything's been said, but it needs saying again.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit these murders. Don't tell me to believe that God can bless this country and that men are judged by their peers. Who among his peers judged him? Was I there? Was the minister there? Was Harry Williams there? Was Farrell Jarreau? Was my aunt? Was Vivian? No, his peers did not judge him, and I will not believe.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That’s the only thing.