Listen, No Part Of Me Is More

If There's Any Single Talent A Writer Needs, It's Persistence. If You Can Keep At Your Writing And You Can Learn As You Write, You Can Tell Any Story You Want To Tell.

I Lost An Arm On My Last Trip Home.

The Only Lasting Truth Is Change. God Is Change.

The Only Black People You Found Were Occasional Characters Or Characters Who Were So Feeble-witted That They Couldn't Manage Anything, Anyway. I Wrote Myself In, Since I'm Me And I'm Here And I'm Writing.

People Who Want To Write Either Do It Or They Don't. At Last I Began To Say That My Most Important Talent - Or Habit - Was Persistence. Without It, I Would Have Given Up Writing Long Before I Finished My First Novel. It's Amazing What We Can Do If We Simply Refuse To Give Up.