Poverty Is A Great Equalizer

I Don't Start A Novel Until I Have Lived With The Story For Awhile To The Point Of Actually Writing An Outline And After A Number Of Books I've Learned That The More Time I Spend On The Outline The Easier The Book Is To Write. And If I Cheat On The Outline I Get In Trouble With The Book.

In My Case, Once You Sell A Lot Of Books And You Are Labeled A Bestselling Author, The Serious Critics Are Never Gonna Say Anything Nice About You.

In Life, Finding A Voice Is Speaking And Living The Truth. Each Of You Is An Original. Each Of You Has A Distinctive Voice. When You Find It, Your Story Will Be Told. You Will Be Heard.

I Can't Change Overnight Into A Serious Literary Author. You Can't Compare Apples To Oranges. William Faulkner Was A Great Literary Genius. I Am Not.

I Grew Up In A Very Small, Close-knit, Southern Baptist Family, Where Everything Was Off-limits. So I Couldn't Wait To Get To College And Have Some Fun. And I Did For The First Two Years. And I Regret A Lot Of It, Because My Grades Were In Terrible Shape.