Edward P. Jones Quotes

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.

As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on.

I just assumed the world was full of solo percussionists. I couldn't find sticks or music or anything where I was, but that was expected because there was nothing there anyway. And I think that was possibly the greatest asset for me, just not knowing.

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

As a child, I spent a lot of time alone. I used to sit in my closet with one cracker. I'd pretend that I was on the North Pole freezing to death, and I had to somehow survive on this one tiny cracker.

I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.

Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents built for me in the back yard. In the fort, I was neither ostracized nor ill at ease - I was self-reliant, brave, ingeniously surviving, if lost.

Trapped' is the story of a guy stuck in an apartment with no food, no water and no electricity, and of his survival based on his primal instincts.

'Castaway' is my favorite movie, and any time I read about a castaway or a story like that, it just interests me a lot.

I spent a lot of time alone when I was a kid, I climbed trees, hopped creek beds, read, watched movies, I'd make stories, make films.

The water in 'Life of Pi' is very realistic.

I can't remember exactly the first thing I wrote, but one of the stories, was about a pilot whose plane crashed on a desert island, and the only other life on the island was a brown cow with yellow spots. The cow had... to survive, had taught itself to eat and get nutriments from sand. I guess, I've always been interested in adaptability and taking whatever life hands you and running with it.

If I were stranded on a desert island, the one book I would have with me would is the Bible. There are enough stories in the Bible to keep you engaged for years.