Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go to California.

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.