“If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.”
“If writers were good business men, they'd have too much sense to be writers.”
“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good writer needs a sense of the history of literature to be successful as a writer.”
“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”
“It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James. But this writer, or writers, well, they're pretty damn good too.”
“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.”