You Can Never Enslave Somebody Who Knows

I Acknowledge Immense Debt To The Griots [tribal Poets] Of Africa - Where Today It Is Rightly Said That When A Griot Dies, It Is As If A Library Has Burned To The Ground.

I Suppose That It Was Inevitable That My Word-base Broadened. I Could Now For The First Time Pick Up A Book And Read And Now Begin To Understand What The Book Was Saying. Anyone Who Has Read A Great Deal Can Imagine The New World That Opened. Let Me Tell You Something: From Then Until I Left That Prison, In Every Free Moment I Had, If I Was Not Reading In The Library, I Was Reading In My Bunk. You Couldn’t Have Gotten Me Out Of My Books With A Wedge...months Passed Without My Even Thinking About Being Imprisoned. In Fact, Up To Then, I Never Had Been So Truly Free In My Life.

I Am Really Quite Proud Of Most Of The People I " Know Who Have "made It," Who Do Things To Help People.

Either You Deal With What Is The Reality, Or You Can Be Sure That The Reality Is Going To Deal With You.

Beginning Writers Must Appreciate The Prerequisites If They Hope To Become Writers. You Pay Your Dues - Which Takes Years.