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  • 'Sag Harbor' was a very different book for me. It changed the way I thought about books that I wanted to do.
    - Colson Whitehead
  • The readership for 'Sag Harbor' was different from people who'd read me before - it was linear and realistic, not as strange as 'The Intuitionist.' Did they carry over to 'Zone One,' a story about zombies in New York? Some, some not. I'm used to people not caring about my other books.
    - Colson Whitehead
  • I'm just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me.
    - Colson Whitehead
  • A lot of my writer friends live near me, and that makes people think we just hang around with one another in cafes, trading work and discussing 'Harper's' and what not. But I rarely see them. We're home working.
    - Colson Whitehead
  • The terror of figuring out a new genre, of telling a new story, is what makes the job exciting, keeps me from getting bored, and I assume it keeps whoever follows my work from getting bored as well.
    - Colson Whitehead
  • I'm raising kids, and so much of American culture sustains me and gives me things to think about and work on.
    - Colson Whitehead
  • Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.
    - Colson Whitehead
  • I like questions that tee me up to make weird jokes, frankly.
    - Colson Whitehead