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Edward P. Jones

American Novelist

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I don't want to own something that you can't take into your apartment at night. Edward P. Jones

You Own Something Take Want Apartment Your Night

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have. Edward P. Jones

Book Believe Particular Any Influenced Might Career

Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever, but because of the varieties of stories, which might be useful as the days pass. Edward P. Jones

I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down. Edward P. Jones

Down Write Driven Never Head Been Lot Things

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

You Made Build Case Fact Step Journalism Just Fiction Your

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

Whatever Would Born Had Wrote Been Chicago Just San Happens San Antonio Places Figured Washington Streets Raised

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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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

Myself Day Me School Girl First Lost City About Only Never Put Like Going Stories Anything Little Little Girl Fourteen

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

Teacher World School Mother Black Seen White Think High High School Had Almost Until Got Worked White World Lived Ever

Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people. Edward P. Jones

Time Me People Political Become Own System Would Something Part Perhaps How Climate Caused Political Climate Happened Ask

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