For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do, you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord.

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To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.

And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say.

The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.

I know that I am a black man in a white world. . . I know that I never had it made.

I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.

My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted.

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We got famous off singing about a chicken.