Jamaica Kincaid: "Perlawanan terhadap pekerjaan saya, dan cara penulis...

"Perlawanan terhadap pekerjaan saya, dan cara penulisan saya, telah ada sejak awal. Hal-hal pertama yang saya tulis adalah cerpen-cerpen pendek yang dikumpulkan di At the Bottom of the River, dan setidaknya tiga di antaranya adalah satu kalimat. Mereka dicetak di The New Yorker, atas keberatan banyak editor di departemen fiksi."

--- Jamaica Kincaid

Versi Bahasa Inggris

The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote were these short short stories collected in At the Bottom of the River, and at least three of them are one sentence long. They were printed in The New Yorker, over the objections of many of the editors in the fiction department.