
“When you write easily, you always think you have more talent than you really do.”
The Paris Review interview (2010)
“When you write easily, you always think you have more talent than you really do.”
On her views of writing in “Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?” https://www.guernicamag.com/does-truth-have-a-tone/ in Guernica (2013 Jun 17)
On having empathy in “James McBride: How I Write” https://www.writermag.com/writing-inspiration/author-interviews/james-mcbride-write/ in The Writer (2013 Dec 30)
“I always say that I’m a writer who writes more from place than race.”
On the theme that she most explores in “Art Talk with Playwright Katori Hall” https://www.arts.gov/art-works/2015/art-talk-playwright-katori-hall (National Endowment of the Arts; 2015 May 28)
Television interview ("On clarity and exact thinking" - available on youtube)
1960s
As quoted in "Real talk with Bill Maher" by Joan Walsh at Salon.com (16 February 2007) http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/int/2007/02/16/maher/index2.html
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934), A Cold Day