Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.

- Victor Lavalle

I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I'm not quite old enough yet to be truly independent.

- Victor Lavalle

The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, in the pl…

- Victor Lavalle

Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.

- Victor Lavalle

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.

- Victor Lavalle

Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just as clear …

- Victor Lavalle

William Kowalski is the kind of storyteller you don’t see quite enough these days. The yarn spinner with a generous soul. The Hundred Hearts is a mov…

- Victor Lavalle

The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated.

- Victor Lavalle

Men always want to die for something. For someone. I can see the appeal. You do it once and it’s done. No more worrying, not knowing, about tomorrow …

- Victor Lavalle