New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Part of being in New York is being able to brag about what used to be there. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“IF THEY THINK those two words New York will fix them, who are we to say otherwise.” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I live in Brooklyn. I moved here 14 years ago for the cheap rent. It was a little embarrassing because I was… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I didn't have to do that much research to present a post-apocalyptic New York because I basically grew up in that New… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I use New York to talk about home, but the ideas in 'Colossus' could be transferred to other cities. The story about… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
I want to keep growing as a writer. I find myself doing unexpected projects and sort of challenging my idea of where I am… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
“Every Tuesday, James Fulton (and later, Orville Lever) stood in the downstairs drawing room and lectured on the intricacies of his science. Lectured on… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
“The Great War had always been between the white and the black. It always would be. Cora” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
“The worst sort of scoundrels took up the chase. Drunkards, incorrigibles, poor whites who didn’t even own shoes delighted in this opportunity to scourge… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
Don’t go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You can’t rush inspiration. … Once your subject finds you, it’s like falling… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
“its terms? Homer watched her as she dressed, like a valet who had waited on her since the cradle. “I’m caught,” Cora said. “You… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
These days I find myself wanting to avoid being pigeon-holed, ghettoized, held in a different category than other authors. And when people ask me… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
Part of any book is establishing the rules at the end of the world. My first book, 'The Intuitionist,' takes place in an alternative… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
“All he felt now was envy. These people had expectations. Of the world, of the future, it didn't matter--expectation was such an innovative concept… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
Growing up as a product of the black civil-rights movement, I had a lot of different models for black weirdness, whether it's Richard Pryor… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share
