The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.

It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.

The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.

Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.