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Essentially, I'm a storyteller, and I make my living by telling stories, be they music or nonfiction or fiction.

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

You make your own luck by working hard, you know?

Historians will tell you that they deal with fact and empirical evidence. But that doesn't really help me understand a person.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

I'm proud of 'Miracle at St. Anna' and I loved it; there's no question in my mind it's as good as any movie that came out in 2007.

Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.

If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.

James McBride