Music and writing do fold together in the sense that you have to have a certain level of skill in order to execute your ideas and you need a medium. The idea of improvisation is one that many writers fall into, and I improvise a great deal when I'm writing, but there's a structural framework that I'm working around, and that takes more time than the actual writing. Once the characters get to yapping and talking, they'll move from one room to the next, and I just have to make sure that the house is built. That's really hard, that's the kind of thing that sits with you all day long.
The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus. - James Mcbride
The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.
- James Mcbride
The basic thing is to be humble, and pretend you're a bartender in the tavern of life. Don't get too comfortable and don't really listen to anybody e… - James Mcbride
The basic thing is to be humble, and pretend you're a bartender in the tavern of life. Don't get too comfortable and don't really listen to anybody e…
So sweet and precious is family life. - James Mcbride
So sweet and precious is family life.
Be kind to the living. - James Mcbride
Be kind to the living.
The black church will accept anybody. - James Mcbride
The black church will accept anybody.
It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt t… - James Mcbride
It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt t…
There's such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. And the greate… - James Mcbride
There's such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. And the greate…
You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself. - James Mcbride
You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself.
My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to clim… - James Mcbride
My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to clim…
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