As a journalist, the details always tell the story.
– James McBride
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
– James McBride
If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.
– James McBride
Like those old Civil War guns where you have to pack the muzzle before you fire, so I spent 14 years packing, packing packing.
– James McBride
People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.
– James McBride
They talk themselves out of everything else, there's nothing else but you and the information you want, and they give it to you.
– James McBride
When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what's the best way to get the information from that person.
– James McBride
Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.