To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.

Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.