Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I think, what's the point of writing a book that you would get in one sitting? — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
One of the things I liked about writing for a magazine was a kind of anonymity. When you do books, it's different… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I don't know what else teaches you as much as writing. Perhaps reading. So if I don't have one or the other… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I think writing is an act of remembrance, I think that Instagram is an act of remembrance, and I think curating a… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I'm one of those crazy people who have to write every day. Otherwise, I feel really sort of despondent, and it's because… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I think that you don't really want to write a book that doesn't really move people and doesn't get them to think. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I really don't think we should dismiss a book because we feel messed about intellectually. Or emotionally. That's the writer's job! — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I had to re-write "Philosophy" a lot. It was more obscure than what's in the book now, even! Some things I had… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
What I feel is there are certain demands that you have to satisfy in any piece of writing. When it's just for… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
One of the things that's great about writing for a magazine is that every week you get to be a different person.… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I think that writers are best served by sticking to their writing. Not having loads of theories about the best way to… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I believe that one reason I began writing essays - a form without a form, until you make it - was this:… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the question of how we perceive something, how consciousness goes from one thing, like looking at you in… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
“I was an I, an opera of feeling with a very small audience, a writer of articles about culture but with no… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time? — Hilton Als Copy Share
I think someone like Khandi Alexander, who's now on 'Treme,' is one of the most extraordinary actresses I've seen in years. But she's dependent… — Hilton Als Copy Share
I used to always love taking photos, but I would always give a camera away to someone else. Now I don't give the camera… — Hilton Als Copy Share
If I feel like I haven't really tapped into the essence of the story when I do an assignment, I may revisit it on… — Hilton Als Copy Share
Great sadness can be off putting, hard to comprehend, especially if it hasn't been your experience. It's amazing for me to know now that… — Hilton Als Copy Share
I think that Tyler Perry's genius really has been to tap into the domestic market. He knows what his audience is based on, having… — Hilton Als Copy Share
I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names/subject matter of every person to come in the book.… — Hilton Als Copy Share
People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control. — Hilton Als Copy Share
Racism seduces us with its desire to categorize, shutting out the living and breathing and 'different' world all around us. — Hilton Als Copy Share
I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don't notice because I'm hardest on… — Hilton Als Copy Share
