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What isn't said is as important as what is said.

Colson Whitehead

My mom's mother was from Virginia, but I don't feel much of a tie. I'm very much anti-South for many, many reasons. Whenever I go down there, people are always looking at me funny, you know.

Colson Whitehead

If you want to understand America, it's slavery.

Colson Whitehead

I don't generally follow sports. At an early age, I discovered that nature had apportioned me only a small reserve of enthusiasm. Best to ration.

Colson Whitehead

I'm not a teacher; I'm not a historian. I'm trying to create a world for my characters.

Colson Whitehead

I grew up reading the 'Village Voice' and wanting to be one of these multidisciplinary music writers, film writers, book writers. And I lucked out getting a job at the 'Voice' right after college.

Colson Whitehead

When I'm working on a book, I try to do eight pages a week. That seems like a good amount. Less than that, I'm not getting a nice momentum, and more than that, I'm probably putting out too much crap.

Colson Whitehead

The readership for 'Sag Harbor' was different from people who'd read me before - it was linear and realistic, not as strange as 'The Intuitionist.' Did they carry over to 'Zone One,' a story about zombies in New York? Some, some not. I'm used to people not caring about my other books.

Colson Whitehead

I always try to mix it up with each book - changing tone, changing style keeps the work very vital for me.

Colson Whitehead

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.

Colson Whitehead

A lot of my books have started with an abstract premise.

Colson Whitehead

Write what you know.

Colson Whitehead

I knew that a zombie book would not particularly appeal to some of my previous readers, but it was artistically compelling, and being able to do a short nonfiction book about poker was really fun and great.

Colson Whitehead