A Fact Is Not A Truth Until

Writing Is Very Hard Work And Knowing What You're Doing The Whole Time.

When You Grow Up In A Totally Segregated Society, Where Everybody Around You Believes That Segregation Is Proper, You Have A Hard Time. You Can't Believe How Much It's A Part Of Your Thinking.

I Think That Everything You Do Helps You To Write If You're A Writer. Adversity And Success Both Contribute Largely To Making You What You Are. If You Don't Experience Either One Of Those, You're Being Deprived Of Something.

And I'm A Slow Writer: Five, Six Hundred Words Is A Good Day. That's The Reason It Took Me 20 Years To Write Those Million And A Half Words Of The Civil War.

Longevity Conquers Scandal Every Time.