Tayari Jones Quotes

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
Tayari Jones

American, Ways, Modern

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
Tayari Jones

Writing, Honor, Students

I do have a sister - I have two sisters.
Tayari Jones

Two, Sister, Sisters

I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.
Tayari Jones

Mind, Justice, Against

I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.
Tayari Jones

Feeling, Start, Lose

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
Tayari Jones

Work, School, Done

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.
Tayari Jones

Teen, Writing, Write

I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
Tayari Jones

Work, Good, Fight

I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.
Tayari Jones

Girl, Young, Invisible

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.
Tayari Jones

Children, Leaving, Dead

Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
Tayari Jones

Secret, Literature, Issue

The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
Tayari Jones

American, Literature, Adolescent

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.
Tayari Jones

Life, Emotional, Writing

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
Tayari Jones

Truth, Lie, Read

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: November 30, 1970

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