Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.

I know that I haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

I very much dislike the word "race," and I never use it. I use the word "racist." Race is not a fact. There is only one race: human. Skin color is less than 2 percent of the DNA.

Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.