The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.