We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.
The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.
If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day… You don’t go to a well once but daily. You don’t skip a child’s breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning…
It hurts when they’re gone. And it doesn’t matter if it’s slow or fast, whether it’s a long drawn-out disease or an unexpected accident. When they’re gone the world turns upside down and you’re left holding on, trying not to fall off.
The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.
I’ve always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview, 12-7-11
I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had been raised in a place where to show your fear was worse than cowardice. It was suicide, a sin.
Chirren is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.
A man’s bookcase will tell you everything you’ll ever need to know about him.
Blood may be thicker than water, but family has them both beat.
Mrs. Turner gripped my baby finger.It’s amazing how a man can feel sex anywhere on his body.
We born dyin’…But you ask a man an’ he talk like he gonna live forevah.
The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.
I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I’m willing to die no one can master me.
I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.
There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.
I wondered if I could just drop the role I carried like a mantle of a dethroned prince.
The girl was cinnamon colored in the way of Native America after it had been raped by Europe.
I don’t give a fuck what you’re trying to do or what you want. I’d send your ass away if you were a white man with a red ribbon tied around your dick.
We will be one step down from the Creator,” she said, her olive-hued face tightening into an expression that she considered dramatic. “Imagining a world and then making it.
He made me question what was, when for a whole lifetime up till that moment, I accepted the world’s excuses.
The law,” he continued, “is made by the rich people so that the poor people can’t get ahead…