“There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - li...” — James Goodnight Quote

“There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.”

“I don't keep up on a lot of the business trends.”

“I'm not big on reading business books. I get copies of all of them, because people want me to put a comment on the jacket. Every once in a while, I'll get interested and read one all the way through.”

“For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. They have to do a brutal self-examination of everything they believe to be true.”

“I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.”

“Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?”