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If you write about race in 1850, you end up talking about race today because in many ways, so little has changed.
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I write at home. I like to be able to take a nap, watch TV, make a sandwich, and if I wake up and don't feel like working, I'm not going to bang my head on my desk all day: I'll go out and do something else.
Colson Whitehead
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Part of any book is establishing the rules at the end of the world. My first book, 'The Intuitionist,' takes place in an alternative world where elevator inspectors are important, so you have to establish rules, and part of that is, How do people talk? How do they behave?
Colson Whitehead -
Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third.
Colson Whitehead -
I'm raising kids, and so much of American culture sustains me and gives me things to think about and work on.
Colson Whitehead -
The contemporary casino is more than a gambling destination: it is a multifarious pleasure enclosure intended to satisfy every member of the family unit.
Colson Whitehead -
The terror of figuring out a new genre, of telling a new story, is what makes the job exciting, keeps me from getting bored, and I assume it keeps whoever follows my work from getting bored as well.
Colson Whitehead -
I was sort of a miserable teenager.
Colson Whitehead