Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.

I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.

You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That is the way of the world.

The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.

That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.