Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.