Thinking Quotes by Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead

A lot of people, when they first hear about the Underground Railroad, think it really is a subway or a locomotive. When they find out it’s not, they feel a little disappointed. So I thought, What if it was a literal underground train network traveling from state to state, with each state it goes through representing a different opportunity or danger?

Opportunity

People

Thinking

Colson Whitehead

I think being a writer was a crappy job when you just had typewriters. It was crappy when we just had ink and paper. And it’s sort of crappy now. It’s always just you and the page. That doesn’t change.

Jobs

Thinking

Typewriters

Colson Whitehead

I think the world’s big enough for all kinds of zombies. You can have yours and I can have mine. I think by going with slow zombies I maybe have been asserting my own kind of zombie snobbery, but I don’t begrudge the youngsters their tackling, running, jumping zombies.

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Thinking

Zombie

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Thinking Quotes by Colson Whitehead

I think being a writer was a crappy job when you just had typewriters. It was crappy when we just had ink and paper. And it’s sort of crappy now. It’s always just you and the page. That doesn’t change.

I think the world’s big enough for all kinds of zombies. You can have yours and I can have mine. I think by going with slow zombies I maybe have been asserting my own kind of zombie snobbery, but I don’t begrudge the youngsters their tackling, running, jumping zombies.

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