Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me..

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step..

Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would sa….

At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting….

When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you cant be without a job f….

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other..

The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn..

We are all worthy of one another..

Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease..

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so..