Hilton Als Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names/subject matter of every person to come in the book. Like a piece of music with themes, etc.

  Hilton Als

  Book, Names, Musical

  Source: therumpus.net

• I really don't think we should dismiss a book because we feel messed about intellectually. Or emotionally. That's the writer's job!

  Hilton Als

  Jobs, Book, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

• Every time I put a collection together I'd scrap it because there was no "meaning," until I wrote about the two black men - friends - in the beginning of the book. So much of their experience was ABOUT trying to find friends in the authors/artists I wrote about - subjects that were/are a source of comfort, somehow, since none of them "fit," either

  Hilton Als

  Book, Artist, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

• I had to re-write "Philosophy" a lot. It was more obscure than what's in the book now, even! Some things I had to go back to and excise my former self, who was even more dense. I think you should teach whatever you want, Brian! That's the point of books like White Girls, to help free our thoughts!

  Hilton Als

  Girl, Philosophy, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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