Colson Whitehead Quotes About Books

• I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the difficulty level of writing sentences and thinking up new ideas.

  Colson Whitehead

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• I write the books that I'm compelled to and I definitely learn things about the world when I write them, and I hope that other people get something out of them, enjoy them, see the world differently when they're done.

  Colson Whitehead

  Libro, Escritura, Personas

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• I can't say that you should extract this or that value from my books explicitly. They are up for interpretation. In terms of the obligation, I think we're all individuals on this planet, trying to scratch our way through the day, and if you're writing a book exposing atrocities in Rwanda or writing a murder mystery set in a mountain village, I think both ways of spending you time are valid and both books are probably fine to read.

  Colson Whitehead

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.

  Colson Whitehead

  Book, Writing, Careers

• Twenty years ago, when I started writing, I didn't define myself as an African-American writer. And then you write books and you're focused on what's inside your books, and that kind of term is generally used on the outside, by the critical establishment.

  Colson Whitehead

  Libro, Escritura, Amable

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.

  Colson Whitehead

  Growing Up, Book, Writing

• I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city.

  Colson Whitehead

  Book, Technology, Thinking

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• I always have a few ideas that are percolating, and then after I've finished a book and it's a year later, and things are sort of festering and things are disgusting in my house and I have to get back to work, whatever project I keep thinking about is the one I end up working on. Sort of a very simple process of elimination.

  Colson Whitehead

  Libro, Simple, Pensamiento

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• As I get older and write more books I'm definitely allowing the humorous side of my personality more rein in my work.

  Colson Whitehead

  Humorous, Book, Writing

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• In terms of why everything is different, each book is different than the one before because I'm so bored of what I just finished I want to work on something different. The next book becomes an antidote to what I did before.

  Colson Whitehead

  Book, Bored, Different

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• In terms of the economics, yes obviously the rise of e-books and how people choose to read books has a big effect on the economics of the game. But whether people are buying them on paper or downloading them there's still some poor wretch in a room who is trying to write a poem, write a story, write a novel. And so my job doesn't change. It's just how people receive it and economic conditions on the ground change, but that doesn't affect what I write.

  Colson Whitehead

  Empleo, Libro, Escritura

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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