There, little girl, don't read, You're fond of your books, I know, But Brother might mope If he had no hope Of getting ahead of you. It's dull for a boy who cannot lead. There, little girl, don't read.
I write books that I want to read. I write books that feature curvy heroines because I'm a curvy woman myself and it gets tiresome to read books about skinny women all the time. There's nothing wrong with skinny women, I just don't relate to their li...
I’ve had situations when I’ve actually encouraged authors to self-publish because their book was poor. Now one would conclude that I’m asking them to self-publish because their book was poor and the self-publishing warehouse is where all the po...
I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique group...
I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.
Jupiter Sharts: [seeing that Thomas is reading] Good book, brother? Cpl. Thomas Searles: Yes it is, actually. The name's Searles, Thomas Searles. Jupiter Sharts: Jupiter Sharts, sir. What it 'bout, that book? Cpl. Thomas Searles: It's a collection of...
Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can cont...
I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I ne...
There is a meaning of life but I've been sworn to secrecy.
A great book remains eternally in one’s memory as today’s legend.
With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.
Nothing succeeds like success. Kill me now.
You could never get in a book. Good books are always about everything.
It's iron that can sharpen iron; wood cannot do that.
A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.
It’s often only as beauty fades that it becomes apparent it was ever there.
If freedom isn't worth dying for, then...what is it really worth?
Injustice against some...is injustice against all!
Changing One's Mind...Can Help Change Humanity!
You shouldn't want to be like everyone else. Then you wouldn't be like you.
The Infinite struck the void with the sound of the Word.
