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

'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially when you have a good professor.

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.

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

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.

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

The people I grew up around, almost all of them had been born and raised in the South. And, you know, they didn't always go to church, but they lived their lives as if God were watching everything they did.

I'm not afraid of my own company. I was made to be at home.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.