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I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story - about my dog, of course.

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I think there are some people for whom words are like food.

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I write what I hear.

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I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.

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I was a house dad. Once, my wife was working as a dispatcher at the fire department, and I was staying home and writing while baby-sitting my son, who hardly ever slept. So I wrote in twenty-minute patches. Some of that early stuff is just dreadful. I got a thousand rejects.

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I love and respect the West - you can't live in Texas and not do that.

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I turned out to be a tough, smart kid.

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My mother wanted me to be a reader. She was a reader. Even though she had an 11th-grade education, she was curious about all kinds of things - archeology, anthropology.

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Ossie Davis is one of my heroes for civil rights and things like that.

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My father always encouraged me to get an education, but he was also a guy that, when he was younger, had ridden the rails from town to town to box and wrestle for money.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 28th, 1951

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