A Man's Bookcase Will Tell

Freedom Is A State Of Mind, I Said Wondering Where I'd Heard It Before, Not A State Of Being. We Are All Slaves To Gravity And Morality And The Vicissitudes Of Nature. Our Genes Govern Us Much More Than We'd Like To Think. Our Bodies Can Not Know Absolute Freedom But Our Minds Can, Can At Least Try.

If You Want To Be A Writer, You Have To Write Every Day... You Don't Go To A Well Once But Daily. You Don't Skip A Child's Breakfast Or Forget To Wake Up In The Morning.

The Job Of The Writer Is To Take A Close And Uncomfortable Look At The World They Inhabit, The World We All Inhabit, And The Job Of The Novel Is To Make The Corpse Stink.

Susan Straight Finds La's Secret Heart In Between Heaven And Here And With A Sleight Of Hand Only The Masters Have, She Creates An Alley, A Neighborhood, A History That Is As Rich And Tragic As Any Shakespearean Tale.

A Man's Bookcase Will Tell You Everything You'll Ever Need To Know About Him," My Father Had Told Me More Than Once. "a Businessman Has Business Books And A Dream Has Novels And Books Of Poetry. Most Women Like Reading About Love, And A True Revolutionary Will Have Books About The Minutiae Of Overthrowing The Oppressor. A Person With No Books Is Inconsequential In A Modern Setting, But A Peasant That Reads Is A Prince In Waiting.