Jamaica Kincaid Want Quotations

When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself.

I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

I've come to see that I'm saying something that people generally do not want to hear.

I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.