I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.
I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day...
You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be...
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.