My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.
One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.
Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.
When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.
