Colson Whitehead Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

  Ideas, Three, Should

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Book, Bored, Different

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• 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

  Kids, Light, Names

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• I write the books that I'm compelled to and I definitely learn things about the world when I write them, and I hope that other people get something out of them, enjoy them, see the world differently when they're done.

  Colson Whitehead

  Book, Writing, People

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• I like movies. I've written screenplays as a sort of procrastination thing for me. Like I'll work for a couple months on this idea that's been kicking around and then like 30 pages in I'll just go try a novel because it's a lot easier. That's what I know. So why am I killing myself?

  Colson Whitehead

  Couple, Procrastination, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I can't say that you should extract this or that value from my books explicitly. They are up for interpretation. In terms of the obligation, I think we're all individuals on this planet, trying to scratch our way through the day, and if you're writing a book exposing atrocities in Rwanda or writing a murder mystery set in a mountain village, I think both ways of spending you time are valid and both books are probably fine to read.

  Colson Whitehead

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered around lying on your couch in a neurotic stupor all day, I'd take an interest.

  Colson Whitehead

  Sports, Lying, Athlete

  Colson Whitehead (2014). “The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death”, p.41, Anchor

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• 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

  Sleep, Thinking, Males

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• To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city what we would never allow to be done to ourselves. . . . New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

  Colson Whitehead

  New York, Self, Cities

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• 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.

  Colson Whitehead

  Coffee, Writing, Paris

  "The Column of Lasting Insignificance" by John Wilcock, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2008.

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• 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

  New York, Cities, Example

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• 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

  Growing Up, Book, Writing

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• Talking about New York is a way of talking about the world.

  Colson Whitehead

  New York, Talking, World

  Colson Whitehead (2007). “The Colossus of New York”, Anchor

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