Quotes by Lawrence Hill

About Lawrence Hill:

Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist, essayist and memoirist. He is best known for his 2013 Massey Lectures Blood: The Stuff of Life, his critically acclaimed 2007 novel The Book of Negroes and his 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada.
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Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.

Lawrence Hill

To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.

Lawrence Hill

just want to read more books and be a knowledgeable female.

Lawrence Hill

But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast w...

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Mama is beautiful,” I said. “Mama is strong,” he said. “Beauty comes and goes. Strength, you keep forever.

Lawrence Hill

Author Bio

  • NameLawrence Hill
  • DescriptionCanadian writer
  • Born1957
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsCommonwealth Writers' Prize