Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.
I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.
When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.
If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family.
But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous, some true, some false, some funny, some tragic, and all of them combining to form the mystical, undefinable entity we call the school. Not exactly the building, not exactly the faculty or the students or the alumni - more than all those things but also less, a paradox, an order, a mystery, a monster, an utter joy.
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.
If you got a booty, you're going to dance to disco, funk, you know, whatever's going on. Funk is going to be involved in it.
It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.
I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.