American - Novelist | 1969 -
I'm always trying to switch voices and genres.
Colson Whitehead
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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.
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I envied kids who played soccer and football, but that was not my gig.
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In the apocalypse, I think those average, mediocre folks are the ones who are going to live.
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I was always into comic books and horror stories and a huge consumer of pop culture. And then I worked for awhile for 'The Village Voice'.
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Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.
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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.
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I like questions that tee me up to make weird jokes, frankly.
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Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else you are lying.
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I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from this or that piece of art that has stayed with me. Toni Morrison, George Romero, Sonic Youth - they are all in there.
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There are good writers and bad writers. It's hard to find writers who really speak to you, but the work is out there.
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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.
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