I write stories that are already in the air, and I think it's important to have the correct listening device to tune in to that frequency.
From James McBride
I have cousins in North Carolina who talk in that old Southern style of 'yakking,' if you will. All the black men in my life when I was a boy talked that way, and I love that kind of talk.
John Brown was the abolitionist to end all abolitionists. People thought he was crazy. He was like John Coltrane playing free jazz, exhausting all possibilities in his approach to harmony and improvisation.
James Brown's life was really a metaphor for our inability to talk about matters like race and class in America.
Being a best-selling author doesn't make you a millionaire. It's not like Stephen King.
I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me.
Some writers like to go around talking about what they do all the time. I don't.
I don't like living around too many fancy-pantsy folks. That ain't my thing. I'm not into phony people.
Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.
A daily dose of Nietzsche goes a long way.
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