I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.

I have never thought that I have sacrificed anything being a writer. That might not be true, maybe I have sacrificed something. Maybe I've given something up, but I can't think of it.

People don't understand how hard it is to get recognized, how hard it is to get people to read your books. How hard it is to get people to even to understand what they're reading when they're talking to you about their books.

Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

Better to listen to the gospel than to a mortal leader.

Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.