247 Quotes by James McBride

Some writers like to go around talking about what they do all the time. I don't.

I don't like living around too many fancy-pantsy folks. That ain't my thing. I'm not into phony people.

Be a member of the human race. Love somebody. Change the world.

Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.

I'm hot on the Jewish book club circuit. How many black authors do you know who can say that?

A daily dose of Nietzsche goes a long way.

I can't be a creative person if I'm a celebrity.

When the great jazz and blues clubs closed - joints where the cash register rang loudly and there wasn't ESPN on TV over the bandstand, and people smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey and hollered 'Play on!' - When those places closed, I was pretty much done.

I used to walk through the Old Times Square fearing for my life. Now I wouldn't be caught dead there.