Ernest Gaines Quotes

There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.

All poetry comes from repetition.

Everything seems an echo of something else.

...but what has been said once can always be repeated.

I need you,ʺ said Lissa. ʺI hear that from women a lot,ʺ said Adrian.

Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.

That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually.

I don't need to be told the same thing every day, every morning, same words.

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the greatest sonatas are composed; whether or not it is true, I do not know, but of a surety I have seen it emerge in the tapestry of my life.

You need a prostate to understand,” I said.

Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.

Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.

The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.

That’s not me. I wouldn’t [take paternity leave.] Quite frankly, I would have said C-section before the season starts. I need to be at Opening Day. I’m sorry.

Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.

I love the horse from hoof to head. From head to hoof and tail to mane. I love the horse as I have said - From head to hoof and back again.

It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.

She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.

My dad brought me Michael Jackson and Madonna and said, "This is ALL you need to know!"

I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

We need a smaller and elite military, as [Donald]Rumsfeld said - and also a smaller and elite foreign policy.

Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.

When you're doing the same scene over and over, all day long, you need to keep your levels up for your own performance and for the other actors.

If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.

All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.