"There's no ONE audience..."
"All you can do is allow all the work in the room for consideration."
"You don't get anything cutting edge in a committee."
"Vanity publishing has generally been viewed in a poor light. I don't hold ANY work in disregard,"
"Scholarship is different from reviews. Most of the time I read scholarship, I learn something."
"There are so many books: John A. Williams, Frank Yerby, Julian Mayfield, Paul Robeson, Zora Neale Hurston, Chester Himes, John Oliver Killens, Cornelius Eady, Laurence Sterne...There's so much work to read."
"One day, I will stumble upon a good poem...I keep trying...The work's not complete when I stop writing the third or fourth draft..."
"We're always making work from other works."
"I believe in the power of fiction."
"I asked, "Why hasn't anyone done this?"...and then I thought, I haven't thought of it either."
"When I let work go, I REALLY let it go. The work has to do in the world what it's gonna do."
"You don't come to a novelist for advice and a message. You come to a novelist for Art."
"Reading is one of the most subversive things you can do."
Quotes from A Conversation with AfricanAmerican literary giants, E. Ethelbert Miller and Percival Everett,
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