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Colson Whitehead Quotes

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.

Colson Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1969

Topics

Writing You Want Horror Way Own

When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies.

Yourself People Me You Cookies Go

Don't focus on weekly or monthly returns.

Focus Weekly Returns Monthly

I love watching 'Orange Is the New Black,' and I play video games, like 'Call of Duty.'

Love Video Games Black Play New

Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different.

Football People Story Better Acting

Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing.

You Nothing Star Town Really Unless

If you donate to the mainland, it's not as simple as giving money. You need a lot of psychological resilience.

Money Simple Resilience Giving You

Rap music was and is, for me, everything.

Music Me Everything Rap Music Rap

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

Good Fun Building Start Think Doing

Governments spend all their time trying to get big companies to relocate their headquarters, and they end up subsidizing the move with tax breaks. And companies that relocate their headquarters are often not meaningful job creators.

Time Job End Trying Tax Meaningful

What I do for a living puts me in the spotlight.

Me Living Spotlight Puts

I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.

Music Perception Want Movies Act

Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up by them of latter days.

William Tyndale

Diversity Opinion Matter Up Days

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