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I Have Learned As Much About Writing About My People By Listening To Blues And Jazz And Spirituals As I Have From Reading Novels. The Understatements In The Tenor Saxophone Of Lester Young, The Crystal, Haunting, Forever Searching Sounds Of John Coltrane, And The Softness And Violence Of Count Basie's Big Band - All Have Fired My Imagination As Much As Anything In Literature.

The Six Golden Rules Of Writing: Read, Read, Read, And Write, Write, Write.

Words Mean Nothing. Action Is The Only Thing. Doing. That's The Only Thing.

I Want You To Show Them The Difference Between What They Think You Are And What You Can Be.

We Wait Till Now? Now, When We're Old Men, We Get To Be Brave?