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Colson Whitehead Quotes
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I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
In terms of why everything is different, each book is different than the one before because I’m so bored of what I just finished I want to work on something different. The next book becomes an antidote to what I did before (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can’t write your book (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
His legs remembered the correct position for squatting down with toys. He played. He fit the round male studs into the round female grooves. He got some thinking done as he hunkered down on his fallen-sleep legs (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
I write books and either people read them or they don’t read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn’t change the difficulty level of writing sentences and thinking up new ideas (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
If I have three ideas and I’m working on one more than the others, that sort of tells me that I should work on that one (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
What isn’t said is as important as what is said (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it’s like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I expect it’s like writing in Manhattan, but there aren’t as many tourists walking very slowly in front of you when you step out for coffee. It’s like writing in Paris, but there are fewer people speaking French (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
I grew up reading the ‘Village Voice’ and wanting to be one of these multidisciplinary music writers, film writers, book writers. And I lucked out getting a job at the ‘Voice’ right after college. (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone, (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be the first time he’d experienced it. (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still cool but then they are calmed by the obscure location and the arrival of their kind. Keep the address to yourself, let the rabble fund it themselves. Wow, this crappy performance art is really making me feel no so terrible about my various emotional issues. (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
I’m just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
A society manufactures the heroes it requires (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
A monster is a person who has stopped pretending (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be as near to hell as they can (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be the first time he’d experienced it (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen until they are no longer cracks but the new places for things. That was where they were now. The world wasn’t ending: it had ended and now they were in the new place. They could not recognize it because they had never seen it before (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
Isn’t it great when you’re a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious until you know what it is called and then all the light goes out of it... Once we knew the name of it, how could we ever come to love it?... For things had true natures, and they hid behind false names, beneath the skin we gave them (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect (Colson Whitehead Quotes)
As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless (Colson Whitehead Quotes)