Quote by Colson Whitehead Download Open image ““And what else but a being cursed with the burden of free will would wear a poncho.”” — Colson Whitehead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The strong know that free will is all. What I want, I must take. I” — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“He always gave me choices. Or maybe what he gave me was force wrapped in the pretty package of pretend free will.” — Kitty Thomas Copy Share Image
“He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“A man has the free will to think or not. If he does not, he takes what he gets.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime, I suppose.” — Patrick McGrath Copy Share Image
“He would change my life and behave with selfless cruelty as he prepared to set out on a journey with no hope of return.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“...but I know that I can survive the hard times, taking the worst of what happens to me as a burden but not as… — Nina Sankovitch 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“The Great War had always been between the white and the black. It always would be. Cora” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There's always an attack on the sophomore novel from some quarters. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
