412 Quotes by 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.

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.

I admire Vegas's purity, its entirely wholesome artificiality.

There's always an attack on the sophomore novel from some quarters.

'Driving while black' was taught to me at a young age.

'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.

If you're writing a detective novel or horror or sci-fi, you want to expand or reinvigorate the genre in your own little way.

I'm always trying to switch voices and genres.

The movie 'Rock 'n' Roll High School' was a sacred text in my household.