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 Read Quote
Part of being in New York is being able to brag about what used to be there. Colson Whitehead Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I wanted to be one of these multidisciplinary critics who is doing music one day, TV the next, and books the next. Colson Whitehead Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
