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“If you're writing a detective novel or horror or sci-fi, you want to expand or reinvigorate the genre in your own little way.”

Colson Whitehead

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“Every Tuesday, James Fulton (and later, Orville Lever) stood in the downstairs drawing room and lectured on the intricacies of his science. Lectured on…

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“Is this the truth of our historic encounter?”

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“The Great War had always been between the white and the black. It always would be. Cora”

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“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…

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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…

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“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…

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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…

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Part of any book is establishing the rules at the end of the world. My first book, 'The Intuitionist,' takes place in an alternative…

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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