Writing New People I was thinking a lot about the era that I came of age - the 90's. Brooklyn, in particular,… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues.… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
I had been really obsessed with Jonestown for a long time - many years - and had read everything there was to… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
I definitely feel like when I write a book it's not my job to police or guide the readers. The book and… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
I find myself speaking through the other characters, putting ideas in their voices and heads. Writing almost becomes a splitting of myself… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
I wrote the first draft of the New People quickly but it had been percolating a lot longer. It's a hard question… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
I didn't read about it for school. It was just for myself. I was interested in cults in general but Jonestown was the most… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
“My father's subject: the relationship between history and the individual. He believes everybody is an 'excretion' of his or her environment. That's the word… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
Writing New People I was thinking a lot about the era that I came of age - the 90's. Brooklyn, in particular, this moment… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
“When there is a gap—between your face and your race, between the baby and the mother, between your body and yourself—you are expected, everywhere… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
“It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home,… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues. But race… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
I don't like stories that are too neat and too resolved. I think resolutions can be deadening for the reader. — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
“She has decided all university campuses are alike- the sense of possibility and stasis. She thinks this too: all graduate students, if you look… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
“We were lying on our backs in the foothills, watching the sky and making a list called "Never." All the things we would never… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home,… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
Motherhood. It was hard to get lost in anything else completely when children were 3 years old. — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
