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Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: About Figure Me Narrator Novel Out Pages Takes Voice Write I Write

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If you write about race in 1850, you end up talking about race today because in many ways, so little has changed.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: About Because Changed End Little Many Race Talking Today Up Ways Write You

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Zombies are a great rhetorical prop to talk about people and paranoia, and they are a good vehicle for my misanthropy.

~Colson Whitehead

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'Sag Harbor' was a very different book for me. It changed the way I thought about books that I wanted to do.

~Colson Whitehead

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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

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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 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

Topics: About Actually Anywhere Critic Got Journalist Just Mail Never Sort Stuff

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I'm raising kids, and so much of American culture sustains me and gives me things to think about and work on.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: About American American Culture Culture Gives Kids Me Much Raising Sustains Things Think Work

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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

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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

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