American - Writer | September 11, 1957 -
I cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.
James McBride
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As far as making a living, if plumbing earned more, I'd probably do it. At least you can leave the job at home once the tools are put away. A writer works in his mind 24/7.
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We're learning a tremendous amount of propaganda from television and the Internet.
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Atticus Finch is, you know, he was just his whole - the business of his modesty and his ability to see tomorrow and to try to buttress his knowledge of what was coming for his kids was something that I'll never - as a father I'm not able to do.
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My wife and kids like the quiet and the countryside - I still find that kind of quiet hard to listen to.
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The starting point of all great jazz has got to be format, a language that you can work within that, in some ways, is much tighter than the blues or even gospel. It's all working towards the same destination - the difference being that Miles Davis flew there, and I'm still taking the subway.
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I like stories where normal people are in abnormal situations, and that's what appeals to me about history.
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I write stories that are already in the air, and I think it's important to have the correct listening device to tune in to that frequency.
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I have cousins in North Carolina who talk in that old Southern style of 'yakking,' if you will. All the black men in my life when I was a boy talked that way, and I love that kind of talk.
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John Brown was the abolitionist to end all abolitionists. People thought he was crazy. He was like John Coltrane playing free jazz, exhausting all possibilities in his approach to harmony and improvisation.
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James Brown's life was really a metaphor for our inability to talk about matters like race and class in America.
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Being a best-selling author doesn't make you a millionaire. It's not like Stephen King.
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