Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
—Ernest J. Gaines
Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That’s the only thing.
—Ernest J. Gaines
Topics: Words
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
—Ernest J. Gaines
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
John Irving American Novelist
Don DeLillo American Author
Wendell Berry American Author, Environmentalist
Gene Wolfe American Science Fiction, Fantasy Writer
Cynthia Ozick American Novelist, Essayist
Ralph Ellison American Novelist
Norman Mailer American Novelist
Truman Capote American Novelist
Richard Wright American Novelist, Short-Story Writer
James Ellroy American Crime Fiction Writer