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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.

Manuscripts don’t burn.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.