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'Zone One' has one kind of an apocalypse, and 'The Underground Railroad' another. In both cases, the narrators are animated by a hope in a better place of refuge - in the last surviving human outpost, Up North. Does it exist? They can only believe.
— Colson Whitehead
What isn't said is as important as what is said.
— Colson Whitehead
I try to keep each different book different from the last. So 'Sag Harbor' is very different from 'Apex Hides the Hurt;' 'The Intuitionist,' which is kind of a detective novel, is very different from 'John Henry Days.' I'm just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me.
— Colson Whitehead
'Driving while black' was taught to me at a young age.
— Colson Whitehead
I'm someone who just likes being in my cave and thinking up weird stuff.
— Colson Whitehead
I didn't know I was a zombie pedant until I started considering what from the zombie canon to keep in 'Zone One' and what to ignore.
— Colson Whitehead
Growing up as a product of the black civil-rights movement, I had a lot of different models for black weirdness, whether it's Richard Pryor or James Baldwin or Jimmy Walker.
— Colson Whitehead
'Sag Harbor' was a very different book for me. It changed the way I thought about books that I wanted to do.
— Colson Whitehead
If self-absorption, vague yearnings, and a nagging sense of incompleteness are sins, then surely I will burn for all eternity, and I will save you a seat.
— Colson Whitehead
If you write about race in 1850, you end up talking about race today because in many ways, so little has changed.
— Colson Whitehead
I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from this or that piece of art that has stayed with me. Toni Morrison, George Romero, Sonic Youth - they are all in there.
— Colson Whitehead
The Declaration of Independence is that sacred American text so full of meaning and purpose and yet quite empty if you examine it and pull it apart because the words 'All Men' exclude a vast number of citizens.
— Colson Whitehead
I never actually went anywhere when I was a journalist. I was a critic, and I just sort of got stuff in the mail and chatted about it.
— Colson Whitehead
You can't rush inspiration.
— Colson Whitehead
Write what you know.
— Colson Whitehead
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
I'm just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me.
— Colson Whitehead
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
I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.
— Colson Whitehead
I live in Brooklyn. I moved here 14 years ago for the cheap rent. It was a little embarrassing because I was raised in Manhattan, and so I was a bit of a snob about the other boroughs.
— Colson Whitehead
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
A lot of my writer friends live near me, and that makes people think we just hang around with one another in cafes, trading work and discussing 'Harper's' and what not. But I rarely see them. We're home working.
— Colson Whitehead
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
You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.
— Colson Whitehead
I have a good poker face because I am half-dead inside.
— Colson Whitehead
I'm of that subset of native New Yorkers who can't drive.
— 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
I don't generally follow sports. At an early age, I discovered that nature had apportioned me only a small reserve of enthusiasm. Best to ration.
— Colson Whitehead
I like to know how I'm supposed to feel about things. Just a little clue or hint.
— Colson Whitehead
If the world's nations can set aside their petty bickering over religion, politics, and territory, certainly I can 'get that Olympic Spirit' and rise above my prejudices.
— Colson Whitehead
Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third.
— Colson Whitehead
In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.
— Colson Whitehead
There's not a lot of good TV.
— Colson Whitehead
In America, when you hear about the Underground Railroad, it's so evocative. You think it's a literal subway for a few minutes before your teacher goes on and describes where it actually was.
— Colson Whitehead
Part of being in New York is being able to brag about what used to be there.
— Colson Whitehead
I use New York to talk about home, but the ideas in 'Colossus' could be transferred to other cities. The story about Central Park is really about the first day of spring in any park. The Coney Island chapter is really about beaches and summer and heat waves.
— Colson Whitehead
I love getting out of the Q train at Union Square. It's such a mix of people, like a party. There's always an errand you can do along there, whether it's picking up contacts or buying poker chips.
— Colson Whitehead
I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.
— 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 wanted to be one of these multidisciplinary critics who is doing music one day, TV the next, and books the next.
— Colson Whitehead
Access to information, to music or any kind of culture, is getting faster and faster and more streamlined. At each juncture, people are thrown into tumult and have to adapt or die.
— Colson Whitehead
In 'John Henry Days,' I was taking my idea of junketeering and sort of blowing it up to absurd extremes.
— Colson Whitehead
As always, a lot of bad books will be published. Some good books will be published, and you have to seek them out.
— Colson Whitehead
It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to appreciate them.
— Colson Whitehead
There's always an attack on the sophomore novel from some quarters.
— Colson Whitehead
'John Henry Days' was already half in the can before my first book came out, so I'd already started something that was big and sprawling - I just had to finish it.
— Colson Whitehead
I'm always trying to switch voices and genres.
— 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
I envied kids who played soccer and football, but that was not my gig.
— Colson Whitehead
In the apocalypse, I think those average, mediocre folks are the ones who are going to live.
— Colson Whitehead
I was always into comic books and horror stories and a huge consumer of pop culture. And then I worked for awhile for 'The Village Voice'.
— Colson Whitehead
Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.
— Colson Whitehead
I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.
— Colson Whitehead
I like questions that tee me up to make weird jokes, frankly.
— Colson Whitehead
Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else you are lying.
— Colson Whitehead
There are good writers and bad writers. It's hard to find writers who really speak to you, but the work is out there.
— Colson Whitehead
I admire Vegas's purity, its entirely wholesome artificiality.
— Colson Whitehead
I enjoy thinking about how race plays out over the centuries, how technology evolves, how cities transform themselves. These subjects are present in some of my books and absent in others.
— Colson Whitehead
I do write about race a lot, but I don't think writers - of any shade or background or whatever - have to write about certain subjects.
— Colson Whitehead
People don't like it when you compare the miracle of childbirth to writing a book, but I think there is some overlap in the two because they are both pure agony.
— Colson Whitehead
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