I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.
