I write with as much objectivity as I can.
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
...my heart may have been in it but my soul was not.
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.