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...
Somebody told me I'm a writer. I believed them. Now I regret it.
It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.
Don't ever rely on one job, business contact, etc for your main source of income. Receive multiple sources of income for success.
All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.
Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.
Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.
Book:Sharing of life and experiences with other people.This is lifetime notes for all generations.
In the best interest of profession, a writer should sometimes refrain from writing.
The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.
Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.
We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present.
Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing
The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.
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...
The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.
I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.
By living, thinking, even dreaming the story in one continuous process, ideas came faster and faster. Sometimes the typewriter keys would fly so fast that I wondered if my fingers could keep up with t...
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