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In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: College Maybe Short Short Stories Stories Three Wrote

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There's not a lot of good TV.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: Good Lot Tv

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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

Topics: About Actually America Before Evocative Few Goes Hear Literal Minutes Railroad Subway Teacher Think Underground Where You Your

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Part of being in New York is being able to brag about what used to be there.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: Able About Being Brag New New York Part Used York

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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

Topics: Along Always Buying Chips Contacts Getting Like Love Mix Out Party People Picking Poker Square Train Union Up Whether You I Love

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I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: Antidote Before Book Each Try

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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

Topics: Assume Bored Exciting Figuring Follows Genre Getting Job Keeps Makes Me New Out Story Telling Terror Well Whoever Work

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I wanted to be one of these multidisciplinary critics who is doing music one day, TV the next, and books the next.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: Books Critics Day Doing Music Next One Day Tv Wanted Who

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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

Topics: Access Adapt Any Culture Die Each Faster Getting Information Kind More Music People Thrown

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In 'John Henry Days,' I was taking my idea of junketeering and sort of blowing it up to absurd extremes.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: Absurd Blowing Days Extremes Henry Idea John Sort Taking Up

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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