Colson Whitehead : (5)

" I live in Brooklyn. I moved here 14 years ago for the cheap rent. It was a little embarrassing because I was raised in Manhattan, and so I was a bit of a snob about the other boroughs. " - Colson Whitehead

" Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator. " - Colson Whitehead

" It’s always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher – readers! – who are going to appreciate them. " - Colson Whitehead

" If you write about race in 1850, you end up talking about race today because in many ways, so little has changed. " - Colson Whitehead

" ‘Zone One’ comes out of me trying to work through some of my ideas about why, for me personally, zombies are scary. " - Colson Whitehead