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I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me.

~James Mcbride

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Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.

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When the great jazz and blues clubs closed - joints where the cash register rang loudly and there wasn't ESPN on TV over the bandstand, and people smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey and hollered 'Play on!' - When those places closed, I was pretty much done.

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Be a member of the human race. Love somebody. Change the world.

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I just love music, and I love what music does for people.

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First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

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If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

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Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

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I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.

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I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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