Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg. For when air cycles through the lungs, and the body...
Work on your craft, whatever your medium. Determination is your illusion headway toward reality.
Shut up, Ray.
Life is a book. There are many pages to be written.
You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.
Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.
My early attempts writing plays, which are very poetic, did not use the language that I work in now. I didn't recognize the poetry in everyday language of black America. I thought I had to change it t...
It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.
If someone wanted to be a runner, you don't tell them to think about running, you tell them to run. And the same simple idea applies to writing, I hope.
Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.
Write at the edges of the day.
There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.
Toni Morrison said, The function of freedom is to free someone else, and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyo...
Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing
You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades.
Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story told for perversity's sake, and all the better for that; the image created becaus...
I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.
Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection.
Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly.
Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.
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