When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you cant be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.

We are all worthy of one another.

When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you cant be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.

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

Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.

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.