It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
As for me prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a...
In many ways it was much much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people publicists and so forth implicitly.
