Eminem was someone that I discovered I liked, largely because of his relationship to language and to his mother. Hilton Als Read Quote
One of the things that’s great about writing for a magazine is that every week you get to be a different person. You’re writing different things all the time and not slogging along for years on something. Hilton Als Read Quote
What I feel is there are certain demands that you have to satisfy in any piece of writing. When it’s just for me, it’s just for me, but if it’s a piece for a particular publication, I know what they’re going to ask for. Hilton Als Read Quote
I was an actor for a little bit. That’s when I started to understand fiction – and that one of the great things about fiction is that you’re dependent on the characters as much as they’re dependent on you. Hilton Als Read Quote
I think what we’re attracted to on the page is something that is very difficult to do in life, which is to examine in what seems like a moment. To examine what we can’t do in life very well, which is to be as present and accountable to what an experience is. That’s why life is short and art is very long. Hilton Als Read Quote
I’m not one of those people who’s against all-black productions of Tennessee Williams plays, but there are lot more complex and natural ways to bring people of color into the theater. Hilton Als Read Quote
