In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.
This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do not on any account take your religion seriously.
So much emotion goes into writing fiction.
I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.
In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.
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