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

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.

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

I get more tired by travelling than anything.