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Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.
As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.
I can't say I was a very successful sorority girl.
Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.
Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.
Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.
Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.
Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
In love there are two things - bodies and words.
Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct?
Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.
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