Quote by Colson Whitehead Download Open image ““Pick your fights like you pick your nose: with complete awareness of where you are.”” — Colson Whitehead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“You can't always pick where you fight, or who you fight...or even... how you fight. But do the picking...whenever you can.” — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
“When yo hold your nose so high in the air, you can't see where you are going.” — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“You see a boxer with a beautiful nose and you got a fighter without heart.” — Peter Rabe Copy Share Image
“Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.” — David Levithan John Green Copy Share Image
“I always practiced in my working clothes, so that whatever restrictions they gave me, I learned to deal with before an actual fight. Fight… — Shannon Mayer Copy Share Image
“If you were to talk about your nose, I’d take everything you’d say at face value.” — Jarod Kintz 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
