Novelist Quotes

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.
No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.
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