"I think the notions regarding fiction, non-fiction, essay and so on, are lost on me. I just want to say something, and I want the thing I’m saying to be true. The form can be fiction, the form can be non-fiction, but it has to have a truth. A lie in my mind is a singular thing, it’s like a lump of coal. On the other hand, the truth is conflicted, it is opposition, it opposes itself, it destroys itself even thought it rises to live again. It’s eternal because it’s true. That’s all I want, is to say something true."
- Jamaica Kincaid
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