I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.