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I don’t like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I’m working on now is definitely not horror.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.

I am not a good writer, but I am a great re-writer.

It’s the writer’s duty to write, but it’s also the reader’s duty to read.

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer’s life with the writing. I think that’s something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

Every piece of writing has its own soul.

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it’s about the stories; it’s about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people’s privacy.