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I like stories where normal people are in abnormal situations, and that's what appeals to me about history.

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I write stories that are already in the air, and I think it's important to have the correct listening device to tune in to that frequency.

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I have cousins in North Carolina who talk in that old Southern style of 'yakking,' if you will. All the black men in my life when I was a boy talked that way, and I love that kind of talk.

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John Brown was the abolitionist to end all abolitionists. People thought he was crazy. He was like John Coltrane playing free jazz, exhausting all possibilities in his approach to harmony and improvisation.

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James Brown's life was really a metaphor for our inability to talk about matters like race and class in America.

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Being a best-selling author doesn't make you a millionaire. It's not like Stephen King.

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You make your own luck by working hard, you know?

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Some writers like to go around talking about what they do all the time. I don't.

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I don't like living around too many fancy-pantsy folks. That ain't my thing. I'm not into phony people.

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A daily dose of Nietzsche goes a long way.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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