Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones
Tayari Jonesis an American author and winner of the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction. She was educated at Spelman College, the University of Iowa and Arizona State University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth30 November 1970
CountryUnited States of America
writing practice honor
I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
real writing emotional
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
writing people novel
When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends.
mean home writing
Remember that the writing itself is good for you. If your story is so close to home that you are afraid to write it, it probably means you need to write it.
girl writing organization
I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives,
children hometown left serial took
My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.
air skins body
Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body.
love-is yarn sweaters
I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose thread will transform your warm sweater into a mangled heap of yarn that you can't reuse or repair.
religious believe sacrifice
I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is said to set up shop there if you want to swap your soul for something more useful. If you believe that God can be bribed, it's also the hallowed ground to make sacrifices. In the literal sense, it's also a place to change direction, but once you've changed it, you're stuck until you come to another crossroads, and who knows how long that will be.
way modern adolescence
Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
two two-sisters
I do have a sister - I have two sisters.
pain dwelling flavor
Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent.
issues secret literature
Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
literature hallmark american-literature
The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.