Quote by Colson Whitehead Download Open image ““venturing now or after nightfall. Cora thought better”” — Colson Whitehead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Cora had become too accustomed to escaping unscathed from encounters with white authority.” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Later, though, I wished I had spoken up, or at least tried to explain that once I knew Cora better than anyone. But that… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“A hundred years or more, she's bent her crown in storm, in sun, in moonsplashed midnight breeze. surviving all the random vagaries of this… — Lauren Lipton Copy Share Image
“It seemed to her that she had never known what the night was like before. Up till now it had been dark, silent, beautiful… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Autumn had arrived— the last blossom whispered, let me stay awhile.” — Meeta Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
“She glanced upwards for a second at the soft blue vault of the midsummer night sky. Not a cloud misted its solemn depths. Tomorrow… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
“She’s still there, just covered by a layer of ice." The Alpha to Ty, while talking about Morgan.” — Maggie Berkley Copy Share Image
“She was so radiant, it was like the other-light was already on her.” — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
“Reality revived. She frowned and gazed ahead, feeling numb still after all these months, yet unable to believe it was true, wanting to lift… — Laura Kinsale Copy Share Image
“Her heart was an invalid convinced that it would not survive many more sunsets.” — Alethea Kontis 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
