I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.
You can HAVE, DO or BE, anything you want! It's a choice and it's YOUR CHOICE.
Your outside world is a reflection of your inside world. What goes on in the inside, shows on the outside.
No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.
See yourself in abundance and you will attract it. It works every time, with every person.
Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.
Anyone that ever accomplished anything, did not know how they were going to do it. They only knew they were going to do it.
I'm glad I've learned what I've learned when I learned it.
I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.
I began wanting to create a detective who really turned the tables on that image of women, to know that you could have a sex life and not be a bad person. You could have a sex life and still solve your own problems. It was eight years from when I started having the fantasy that I was going to create such a detective to when I actually sat down and came up with V. I. Warshawski. It was a long, slow journey to come to a writing voice and do that character.
The old farm roads a four lane that leads to the mall, and our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.