American - Writer | September 11, 1957 -
You make your own luck by working hard, you know?
James McBride
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I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me.
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Some writers like to go around talking about what they do all the time. I don't.
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I don't like living around too many fancy-pantsy folks. That ain't my thing. I'm not into phony people.
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Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.
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A daily dose of Nietzsche goes a long way.
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When the great jazz and blues clubs closed - joints where the cash register rang loudly and there wasn't ESPN on TV over the bandstand, and people smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey and hollered 'Play on!' - When those places closed, I was pretty much done.
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I used to walk through the Old Times Square fearing for my life. Now I wouldn't be caught dead there.
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I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.
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John Brown was clearly flawed in real life. He did some terrible things, but he did some things none of us would have had the heart to do. His moral leanings were unquestionably admirable.
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The whole notion of owning a person is so ludicrous, there's plenty of room to make fun.
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I thank God I was a reporter before I became a writer.
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