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I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.
Whoever you are, you will not write this book. I can tell you nothing. Do not call me again. Ever.
Read the kinds of things you want to write; read the kinds of things you would never write. Learn something from every writer you read.
At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A.
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.
My literary heroes all wrote about L.A.: Joseph Wambaugh, Ross Macdonald, and Raymond Chandler were the three writers that made me want to be a writer.
Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.
