We are all worthy of one another.

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.

We are all worthy of one another.

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.

At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.