I'm not good enough as a person and definitely not good enough as a writer.

I'm not good enough as a person and definitely not good enough as a writer.

I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways.

I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.

I write two hours in the morning and two hours before bed no matter. No matter what. I also write during the day if I have to get something down, but the four hours a day is the one thing in my life I don't fool with.

The "How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others" essay was so hard to write because of the memories, the sensory stuff, but also because it didn't follow the form of any essay that I've ever read. And the truth that I was exploring necessitated that obliteration of traditional form, I think.

I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.